Morning y'all,
Relapse as a part of recovery? Not an expert here, obviously, but I'd say no--maybe I just hope not.
I drank every day for a million years. That was the drinking. I was addicted to liquor.
I sobered up, and stumbled a bunch. This is the balancing out, if you will, the toe-in the water part. I am addicted to sobering up, but the old addiction still lingers.
Someday I will just go around being sober and knowing what to do. That's the recovery part, I figure. The liquor addiction will be largely gone, perhaps pop up in a craving or something.
I'm not there yet, but I don't really want it to include relapsing all the time... this is neither fun nor good for my self esteem.
Just the opinion of somebody who doesn't actually know what 'recovery' is 'cause never been there... *shuffles feet*
Take care y'all, wish y'all the best of days,
TB, again, not an expert