Question Regarding Absolute Monarchies

Sure it is, I did it as the ottomans and remain absolutist the entire game, mil is your worst enemy more so than con. So if you have to decide between lowering mil or con go for mil.

I may have enacted a few social reforms but no political ones making my style of governance in that game more akin to Enlightened Despotism, and by the last 20 years I put the liberals in power and the capitolists jolted the economy into an even better state than it was in before (don't ask me how daily budget surplus increased by over 2k despite some states having tens of thousands of unemployed craftsmen)

If you're trying to stay Absolute, and don't want to be occupied beating endless rows of rebels (just remember, that rebels are real pops - each rebel you kill in battle, or who is killed by attrition is one guy less in your population), try to keep taxes as low as possible (pops with full luxury demands practically never rebel), if people are wealthy, they're less likely to risk their life in an uprising. If events poping up with the choice between high mil and less mil plus some con, choose high mil, since con produces mil, unless you're ennacting reforms, or be already at max reforms.