Your drinking life seems normal. If these 5 things are true, it’s not.

Some things to consider if your relationship with alcohol is exhausting.

Who knew nights out didn’t have to include this?

If you’re questioning your relationship with alcohol, see if you experience any of these five things. If so, you might benefit from quitting.

1. When you start, your off switch disappears (what off switch?), and you experience an insane desire for more.

I felt like I was under a spell. My drinking was outside of my control once I started. All I wanted was more. I was drawn to more as inexorably as Sleeping Beauty was drawn to touch the spindle on the end of the spinning wheel.

But it didn’t happen every time I drank. That’s where it got super confusing to me.

I have since been taught that normal people NEVER have that craving. Never? Really? Seems highly unlikely.

It’s worth at least asking some of the people you know who don’t drink very much if they ever get that desire for more, more, more.

And it’s worth asking yourself if you do have this experience. At least some of the time.

2. No matter how sincerely you promise yourself you aren’t going to do it again…