I heard someone say last night at an AA meeting...
"My problem isn't stopping, It's starting again after I have stopped drinking."
When there is a pattern of drinking, getting sober, staying sober for a little while, with a return to drinking, ...sober, drunk, repeat..., that this is proof that we are powerless over alcohol.
If we can get sober, but cannot stay sober that is very serious.
Someone told me that if you are in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous and this happens, that you should go back to the chapter called More About Alcoholism.
There it says that we learned we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics.
What does concede mean?
Concede...Give up...done...Hit bottom, ask for help. Go to any lengths to get help, get support, work the program outlined in the book, get involved in the fellowship of AA.
I am in AA, so I hope you don't mind that I respond with AA as one solution that may help.
I heard a man share last week, that there are so many people in and out of AA. He said it's not enough to want to be sober, we have to do something. We have to do the work.
What is the work?
Get to AA, meet some people that have shared the same experience as you and ask them.
Ask someone to get in the book with you, and show you the way out.
