pit. My urge starts around 6pm too! (I'm assuming it's because my hangover has wore off and I'm ready to go again.) It's nice to know that if I tell myself 'no' that feeling will pass. I don't drink much when my boyfriend is with me and I find myself enjoying his company, laughing and sleeping better when I do resist the urge. I wouldn't say I have a drinking problem until I go out on the weekends to the bar where I'll have on average 4-6 drinks a night( friday and saturday). I am very disciplined as I only drink if I'm going out to the clubs otherwise I don't care for it. I would love to stop drinking only because I know that I do it to be comfortable at a place I truly don't like but is the only place to go as my schedule is based around school and raising my son. Slowly but surely, I've come to realise that all the bad things that have happened in my life have been as a direct result of my drinking. My relationship with my partner has become increasingly fractured, as I develop what he calls my "f**k awful" dark side when I drink and I behave towards him in a way that he does not deserve. I have lost friends over drinking and I have experienced three blackouts that have frightened me horribly. I never thought of myself as having a problem with alcohol before, but clearly