Coolbeanschilly

Samuel C. Dundee, at your service!

If you've read my comment history with OP, I was voicing my concerns because that was part of how it started for me. Thankfully I'm on the other side of alcoholism now. I just know that if someone is asking a question showing concern for their drinking, I will speak up and voice concern.

I'm not attempting to take away any agency, I just wish someone had actually said something to me rather than downplaying my concerns. I may have not fallen down the rabbit hole, because I still had a handle on it then.

I did read the post, and made the emotional appeal to him, based on those nuances. The shallow troll turned it into a digital and binary measurement, rather than the analogue existence we currently enjoy. They just didn't like that I pointed out how dark their opinion was.

I believe the pushback is the result of simple ignorance on their part and refusing to see nuance. I returned their bellicose nature and the minions hopped on the bandwagon.

Life and death isn't so cut and dry, unlike their currently shallow and negative perceptions. I pray that your long term health improves, and that your business prospers so you don't have to choose that direction.

In the meantime, live well under the sun.

Books are where it's at!

Books are where it's at!

1. This is why I stopped working for myself (not the best business partner, long story I won't get into here).

2. I hope that you find a better way and that you don't have to resort to that. Suicide will hurt your wife, I have a friend who had her husband shoot himself in the head with a shotgun a few years ago. She's 74, and while she has her kids and grandkids visit sometimes, she misses him terribly 3 years later. They were married for around 50 years.

Please, choose a different way.

Books are where it's at!

Yeah, I'm aware of these. I was speaking of the big boxes, not the ones like this.

I just hope that OP doesn't go down the same ruinous path that I did. Compared to where I was in my fifteen year journey with Alcohol Use Disorder, I was at about year four. Where I would drink in order to relax and be able to socialize with others.

An over reliance on a substance to ease a social situation (no matter the reason), is a potential crossroads that can lead further down the path of abusing said substance.

Would you care to clarify?

Books are where it's at!