Originally Posted by
embraced2000 
and each time, my hopes would soar to the heavens, and my heart would nearly burst with love, devotion, determination and new found strength....
....alcoholism is a huge, complicated monster....it just doesn't go "poof" for most people.
You totally captured the way I felt for a few minutes. I was just elated...he sounded so good...I caught myself thinking that we could just forget the past and move on...that this was just going to be another "story" we'd look back on in our happy golden years. Smack (me hitting myself upside the head)! hey! wake up neg!
sigh.
How sad. I too just wish it went "poof".