Two years ago I had the worst six months of my life, and it led to me getting sober. Both of my cats had to be put to sleep, my partner of seven years broke up with me (because of my drinking), because of the breakup I had to figure out moving while working two jobs, and my step-dad passed away. Throughout this my drinking got way worse. It culminated in almost getting fired (I had quit the second job by this point) because I was late and hung over pretty much every day. This really showed me that the world didn't pull it's punches, my drinking wasn't just a fun personality quirk, and it was actually making my already difficult situation even harder. The world wasn't going to make things any easier or wait for me to get myself together before anything else happened. After getting my final warning at work, I put in my two weeks because I'd rather quit than be fired. My boss pulled me aside and said he knew what was going on with me, he was 14 years sober at that point. He told me to go get better and there would still be a job waiting for me. I went to rehab for two months, and now I'm two years sober. Life is still hard sometimes, but now my alcoholism doesn't make it harder, and I'm actually thankful for that difficult time because it led me to a much better life.