How Do You Know You’re Ready to Get Sober?

This is what it feels like to be ready to change.

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I decided a lot of times to stop drinking. Always on New Year’s Days, and often on the day after my birthday.

Swearing off drink was pretty common, actually. Almost as common as deciding to ‘just have one’. Mostly, I laughed off my plan to quit as easily I had made it. But gradually…