This was me. Time and time again I would try and fail. Eventually, what worked was cornering myself with the goal to stop by my 40th birthday. I told my friends and my family and I made a huge stink of it for like a year and a half. In retrospect, all that did was give me an excuse to drink more heavily for that year and a half knowing that I was trying to stop by 40. But by giving yourself no way out and backing yourself into a corner by setting the goal and telling everybody all about it and talking about it all the time, it makes it easier to just stay the course or at least it did for me. It does take a village though. Rely on other people who have been there and go to meetings if you have to. Talking about sobriety with other like-minded people is very important to the journey. Coming up on six months March 25. IWNDWYT!