my real personal goal for myself is not to kick drinking enitrely if I am drinking cause I am out with friends and I want to enjoy a drink that I like for its taste and the atomeshpere around me that is fine.

but using something I enjoy to deal with stress is not ok. I hate to say it but I really don't think i could fully stop drinking. that too me personally is too hard, however monitoring how much I drink and why I am doing so or where and for what reasons.

that I think I can certainly do.

I guess the reason I say that is cause I have a sex addiction also and I struggle with that a lot also. Butttt just cause I have that addiction and that I want to gain control over it does not mean I want to stop having sex alotether or never do so again, or for that matter feel ashamed any time I am sexual.

i want to find a balance in it where its not as much of an issue as it was before.