I think there's as many different stories as there are people, and alcoholics, David.
I'm just glad you haven't suffered much
I agree with other people in this thread tho - it's important to remember why you stopped...and especially important to guard against thinking well-heck, maybe you weren't that bad after all?....
I know I would sometimes feel 'good' when abstinent and I would use that to question my alcoholism - three guesses where that led me LOL
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