Originally Posted by
EliotRosewater 
Maybe it's not so much the dating part of it, but the positive feelings associated with a first date that cause (trigger) me to say, "To heck with it," know what I mean?
I would say it has nothing to do with dating. There will always be a reason to drink alcohol. It's just because you have not drunk for a few weeks and you go on a date, you are associating the two.
If you are an alcoholic, at some point you will find that you end up drinking again whatever is going on in your life.
Rather than thinking of dating, I would suggest you ask yourself whether or not you are an alcoholic? If you are, then you need to make your recovering from alcoholism your priority. No active alcoholic can have a relationship where they are mentally and emotionally present........their minds will be on drink, such is the mental obsession.