Thank you. You could say I’ve always enjoyed alcohol... love craft beer, love relaxing and mellowing out. It wasn’t until last year(age 36) to where something changed, and I started drinking way to much medicating the stress I was dealing with. I was in a dark place and ended up drinking to much whiskey one night while I was at home with the family. I didn’t do anything stupid in my drunken stupor... aside from just being drunk, but what hurt the most was that I did it around my kids. I stopped drinking for 8 months after that. I purchased beer a couple times past the 8 month mark, (one was to celebrate my dickhead boss quitting), but haven’t bought any since and I probably won’t anytime soon. I’m actually quite disgusted by it now.

I know I’m not my father by any stretch of the imagination, but his alcohol consumption definitely caused major turmoil in his marriage and in my relationship with him... and I just don’t want any of that bullshit in my kids lives. Not worth it. Love those kids way to much.