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Addictions are when the action interferes with something MORE important to you, and you are unable to control it. If a relationship is more important to me than alcohol, and I cannot stop drinking alcohol to save the relationship -- then I'm an alcoholic. Same thing with gambling addictions, workaholics, etc. If you enjoy gambling, more power to you. If you can't stop gambling in order to avoid going in debt, then you're addicted. It's as simple as that. Just because you think "alcoholic" has stigmas about waking up in gutters with cuts and strange bruises doesn't make this the reality.
If there are things more important to you than alcohol, and you cannot abstain from drinking in order to perserve those things, THEN YOU ARE AN ALCOHOLIC, no question about it.
Before you tell me I don't know the difference between alcoholism, I did (and do) binge drink. However, when it interfered with my relationship, I stopped.
Organize your priorities and find OTHER things to do. If one things helps you break the addiction (or binge, whatever you want it call it) its doing other things. Instead of going out to drink with your friends, tell them you're going to stay in and watch TV with your SO. I think 90% of binge drinking is having friends that want to do it.. remove them or you might find yourself removed from the earth prematurely, if you catch my drift.
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