[Tazman53]

Congrats Irish & yeahgr8 on your sober time.

Irish I to was like you, I knew it all, I was well educated and was able to do anything I put my mind to....... except stop drinking. Oh trust me I tried for many years, all i succeeded in doing was drinking to the point of having to be medically detoxed in order to go a full day without a drink.

It sure sounds like you were granted the same great gift I was granted, the gift of desperation!!!!

I did not want to die!!! When I went to AA I was willing to try anything, I dropped all of my preconcieved ideas and prejudices I had and was willing to do what ever it took to get and stay sober.

Once I opened my ears and listened & apraoched it with an open mind I was able to see and accept that if all of those people in those rooms were staying sober and being happy to boot I was willing to do what they did.