HH, keep your chin up and be aware that in your sobriety there will be moments like that. Try to remember, as someone else pointed out, that there is a lot of misunderstanding about the disease of alcoholism, even by alcoholics themselves.
Maybe you can take it as a learning experience, and if it happens again, you can point out that a toast is a toast, and it is not necessarily tied to the use of alcohol!
Fandy wrote:
I would be very hesitant to post any slips I may encounter along the way...and these type of posts are JUST the reason I am hesitant to ever seek out AA...pushypushypushy....(if you don't do what I did, you can't quit drinking, because AA is the ONLY way)...
Fandy, I don't want to turn this into another thread derailed by a debate about AA. But, just allow me to clarify something, for your information. The basic protocol at AA meetings is sharing. After the 12 steps and 12 traditions are read and the literature chosen for that meeting is read, the floor is open for sharing. Each person can share something about themselves, their day, their thoughts, etc,
if they choose. There is a strict rule in place that does not allow
interrupting of the person sharing, questioning of their share or comments directed at them regarding their share. Criticism especially is never allowed.
Just so you know!