At my meeting tonight we were talking about the principles of AA, we mostly talked about the whole giving up anger part of it. I actually joined in and talked a bit even though I'm still new to this. It's been 4 days of no alcohol and I'm already noticing a difference, I'm not as irritable as I have been these past few weeks while I was drinking. When I drink things set me off more easily, sometimes I would get in rages wanting to throw things across the room and break things or hurt myself, very rarely but it did happen I'd get violent and start hitting people and shoving people. I've been a lot calmer and have felt a lot better since I threw out the alcohol. And if I wasn't irritable from drinking I'd be irritable from being hungover. My husband even snapped about something tonight and that would usually set me off but it didn't tonight.