An alcoholic does not have to be someone who drinks so much every day. There is no such pattern to being an alcoholic. No guidelines to follow. We just know ourselves when the time has come and that something is wrong and we are out of control and the alcohol has control over us. That is when troubles begin I drank for about 25 years and to this day do not know why I still have a liver. The brain has taken its toll but not my liver. Maybe I was spared that evil for some strange reason. A question for you is why did you ask this question in the first place? Is it starting to make you think about your drinking.

Allan