Month: Aug 2020

No. There is no such thing as the right time to stop drinking and if you keep waiting for that special day to come, well, you’ll be waiting for the rest of your life.

You tell yourself “well I can’t start next week because it’s Sandra’s birthday so that’ll be too hard, but then the week after it’s Mabel and Steven’s wedding so obviously I can’t do it then so maybe the week after”. Then the week after Debbie invites you out for cocktails and then obviously you can’t start day 1 in the middle of the week so you might as well try again next Monday. So on and so on. You are trapped in an infinite loop of excuses and I hate to break it to you, but there are always going to be birthdays, and weddings, and date nights, and special events.

My first sober day was 6 days before my birthday. I could have used that as a reason to postpone my sobriety in order to have one last hurrah – but that would have been 6 days wasted.

If you are reading this right now because you are looking for an answer to the question at hand, then here is your answer. Tomorrow. Tomorrow is the right time to stop drinking. If you’re at that point and know you want to go alcohol free but just can’t seem to find the right time, well, there’s no time like the present. Don’t waste another day.