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I don't consider drinking 2 to 3 times a month anywhere near being an alcoholic.

There are different types of alcoholics. My father was a social alcoholic. He wouldn't sit at home alone drinking, ever. He'd have to be drinking with buddies either at home or outside the home. Most of the time it was in one of those low life hick bars where the town alcoholics hang out. He wouldn't come home until the next morning most times.

My mother was the same type as my dad. social.

Social drinking and being a social alcoholic are 2 different things. You know you're an alcoholic when you don't know when to stop drinking. You just don't have any limits. Social drinking might happen, with a non-alcoholic, only 2 to 3 times a week with friends. While a social alcoholic will do this every single day of the week.

same goes with stay at home drinkers. Nothing wrong with a person having a drink after work to wind down from the hectic day they've had. It becomes a drinking problem when that 1 or 2 drinks turn into several to the point that the person is drunk on a daily basis.

An alcoholic, no matter the type, usually drinks every day of the week and never knows how to say no to that last drink. The alcohol becomes the most important thing in their lives above all that used to be precious to them.