Thanks I enjoy comming here and reading peoples thoughts.
I'm still a newby getting close to 5 months but working the steps this time around and calling people in AA when my stinking thinking gets going,,I haven't for a few months thought about a drink until satuday when I went to a driving class to get my license back.
The lady teaching the class said she use to be an alcoholic but cut back to drinking a few times a year...She went into great detail on what happened and how she changed her drinking habits.
I got to thinking maybe after time I could do that,,,but after a while thinking this I remembered THAT I TRIED THIS QUITE A FEW TIMES!!!! To no avail...I called my spounser and a few other AA friends and shared this...Plus got on this site and read all your posts. Alcohol is cunning and my thinking scares the hell out of me at times,,,I'm one sick dude getting better one day at a time.
Buckeyebear, I'm glad you are back on the board. How is that new grandbaby doing?
It's kind of scary to me that the lady would share that she use to be an alcoholic but now she can drink. Many of us have tried the controlled drinking, the only if I drink beer not the hard stuff...but it boils down to if I'm an alcoholic I can't just drink one and stop. maybe the first time, but not the next.
My husband is in state-rehab for felony DUI...he's tried to drink in all the possible ways he can and not get back into his alcoholic self, hasn't worked yet.
For this old drunk, I can't drink one and twenty was never enough. So today I didn't drink and tomorrow I'll ask God to keep me sober one more day. One day at a time and know that I know , no matter what I will not drink.
hey, bear..... I'm glad to see your doing okay... boy.. I can really relate to that temptation,,,, and glad you were able to get past that... cunning appeal. Did you get your license back?
love in recovery,
amanda
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I know there are several schools of thought about alcoholism, but you know, it always scares me and makes me sad when someone says they "used to be" an alcoholic. Sorry, but it's like pregnancy-you are or you aren't! You are either a recovering alcoholic, or a practicing alcoholic, or you are NOT an alcoholic! You are never cured of this disease! I wish people could see that it IS a disease, and it is NOT curable!
I guess some folks feel so much shame about this, they have to say they "had" the disease but got cured. I feel if that lady really can handle alcohol now, she never was an alcoholic-or she's fooling herself, and may be the most shocked person in the world when SHE ends up having HER license revoked for something alcohol-related!
