"Yes." Not liking being drunk isn't stopping him from really wanting to get drunk right now. Anything to avoid thinking about the bullshit that his love life (or lack thereof) right now.

...the hair ruffling is nice, though.

The sad thing is, he already knows the answer to that question. "How to make it stop." How do you make yourself fall out of love with someone? His prior methodology had essentially amounted to suffering the devastating loss of the object of his affections because of circumstances mostly beyond his control, and he'd rather not do that this time around.