and the fear of having to join AA kept me from quitting for years. Finally my Daughter in Law asked me if when her baby, my grand daughter was born if maybe I wouldn't be drinking around her. Boom! I gave that some thought went to the liquor store bought a 1/2 pint of my favorite drink and promptly put it high up on the shelf in the dinning/kitchen area where it was front and center and easy for me and only me to get too, cause I'm taller than the others, you know just in case I had to have it later. Spent three days sweating the poison out of my body and here I am 8 years later stone cold sober as I was when I was 8 years old. No AA, no crying, no screaming, just sober. Guess what I love my sobriety way more than I liked my old drunk ass. 
That my friends is how I quit being a drunk.
Why am I telling you all this, I have no idea but maybe it's because if you want to do something you can do it without a bunch of fanfare, hand holding or crying on each others shoulders. You want to do it, JUST DO IT. Funny that because that is one of the things my grand daughter says to me sometimes, papa just do it. lIke when we're in the pool, I'm afraid of water so I can't just swim around under it like a fish like she can and when I say something like wow I wish I could do that she'll say papa just do it. I did it, I quit drinking and gave me hopefully many more years to live and her a papa to get to know.
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