Hi Louia. Congratulations on going into that pub and not drinking. I don't think I could have managed that with the 3 weeks under my belt. I am lucky in that I don't have many open invitations to drink any more. I am not sure how I would have handled it earlier, but now I can say I would probably be fine.
As far as your mind making excuses as to why you should be able to drink, we like to call that the disease that's speaking. It would love us to drink again and drown ourselves in it, but the further you go without drinking the stronger your own voice becomes. You find you do deserve to live and to live happily and freely. Our addiction will always be with us, but we gain tools along the way to ignore the voice and the voice doesn't stay as long either.
Keep us posted on your move! You WILL be fine!!
