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Old 02-25-2011, 01:51 PM
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Dee74
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I wouldn't say it's weak Kevin - you'll have experienced yourself how hard sobriety can be.

Be careful not to underestimate things or people.
I think you'll find a lot of here maybe even most of us have relapsed.

I can only speak for myself, but I relapsed for a variety of reasons:

I wanted to get a hold of my drinking, but didn't want to quit for good...

I expected just not drinking would magically transform my life, and it didn't....

I didn't start to develop any others ways of coping with life, people, things, stress etc...so when the crises came as they always do, I turned back to booze.

and I just plain felt uncomfortable not drinking and I didn't look around for other ways to get through that.

Relapse is fairly common - but it's not mandatory - especially not if you do the work.

You get out what you put in, Kev.
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