So today I was helping paint football lines for our youth football league. And the guy who is kinda a boss of my but more of a fellow coworker we were talking just guy stuff. Working out, I said I’m looking to lose weight and I said I know my biggest problem and I said drinking… this guy says I didn’t know you drank at all. I said yeah kinda. Then he goes on saying how his view of me just went down. This guy has never drank once in his life. He doesn’t know the struggle of alcoholism. It just really hurt and makes me just want to cry and I feel hurt. Kinda makes me want to get a 6 pack and get drunk… haha. I hope all of your guys day is going good and staying sober and clean!
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There are people out there with closed minds and cannot understand someone partaking in anything that they don’t necessarily agree with.
This upsets me that someone judged you so harshly. Don’t let the judgments of others cloud your goals of becoming sober. Don’t do it for him, or anyone else for that matter - you do it for yourself. Do it for yourself because you deserve to be happy, healthy, and free of alcoholism.
Don’t go out and grab a six pack, that’s what weak minded people would assume you to do, prove them wrong that you’re not just another “alcoholic”!!! 
I have struggled with alcohol. I am 30+ days sober, so this post hit me hard.
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First of all, overcoming something that you are addicted to is extremely hard and takes alot of strength.He obviously has some people in his life who have hurt or disappointed him and is taking it out on you.DO NOT take it personal.
The best thing you can do to people who say things to put you down is continue to succeed. If he has never personally gone through a struggle of fighting something mentally then he has no room to talk.
You are actually someone he should look up too.Thats the truth right there.
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I don’t think I’d ever tell anyone but very close friends or family about my drinking problem. Comments like this would crush me, and there always will be insensitive assholes like him.
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Keep your head up! The only opinion about yourself that you should care about is your own. Only you know the struggles you have, the hardships you’ve been through and the strength it’s taken you to get where you are today. People’s opinions are based on their own lives and their own experiences. I agree with @Restlesssoul that he’s probably taking out on you something from his own life.
Stay sober. Work on you. Others will see the positive changes in you as you work on your sobriety. And if they don’t? Screw 'em! 
Know that you are cared for and you have a tribe. We’re here for you!
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