Hi Bigheart,
Thanks for replying to my post. 🙂
As someone who had a drinking problem, the motivation to quit has to come from within himself. You can never quit because someone else wants you to. It just won’t work. There may be issues he needs to resolve that are the motivations behind his drinking. I don’t really know how I stopped. I just know that as soon as I started making changes in my life for the better, I no longer wanted to drink. So maybe try to get him to focus on other things. I’m sure he has goals or hobbies he’s abandoned. Try to get him to reconnect with who he is and who he can be. Focusing solely on the need to quit to drinking didn’t help me. It only made drinking more attractive. And the more people complained about my drinking, the more I felt the urge to drink.
Good luck.
