[Don W]

Kindablue, Having a slip I know is hard to deal with. The key is to pick yourself back up and continue. There is no rul that a slip meens the end to recovery. We are alcoholics and we sometimes fall back on what is normal for us. That is drinking. I would only like to suggest that you look at where you went wrong and learn from it.
Just don't beat yourself up. It is my opinion that
you havn't lost that 6 weeks, you only lost that 1 day. I know that there is alot of importance put on length of sobriety but, sometime I think it is to much. Although it is important for me to not drink, I feel that if I were an everyday drinker
and went 90 days then drank 1 day, my recovery isn't over. As I said the important thing is to get back on track. The VA talks to us about this.
They try to empress upon us that if we slip we don't have to hit bottom again to start again. We drink because we are addicted. That is why change along with no alcohol is a big key. Keep posting most of us have been there. Don W