Yeah, it's something I'm really going to start working on after I turn 40 next week... It's only gotten particularly bad in the past few months or so (well, plus a period in my mid-20s when I also got a DWI--then stopped entirely for a year due to probation). Over the past 5 years or so, I've gone through periods where I've been drinking more and then would go back to drinking fairly moderately. Then something would happen, and I'd start drinking more (coping mechanism/self-medicating). Doesn't help that H drinks a fair amount, too (and home brews).

I've been trying to watch lots of past episodes of Intervention to inspire myself. But then I end up being like, "Well, they were drinking 18 beers a day--I only have 3-6 per day! So I'm OK." Or, "Well, I'm not on heroin or meth, so..." So it could be that's backfiring...