It is good to see you again. Upon reading your post today I get the feeling that you will not be able to break up with alcohol until you have made a clean break with your ex. If you let him linger, alcohol will surely follow because you have developed a habitual pattern of medicated that exact pain he gives you with alcohol. So I sure hope you mean it when you say, “That’s why I need to simply walk away and not communicate with him anymore.”

Even in that statement you say you “need to simply walk away” instead of saying you are “going to” walk away. It concerns me because many people know things they need to do, and yet they don’t do it. I get the feeling that part of you is going to have a very hard time walking away and making a clean break. Especially because I presume this is the same man you were “breaking up with” weeks ago last time you were posting. I hope you will be able to do it this time though because like I said, it seems unlikely that you will have success quitting drinking, and the unhealthy eating and other things on your list, until you are able to make a CLEAN BREAK from that relationship.

Good luck to you. You have my support once again and I am glad you are here to make some positive changes for your life!

~Josh