Originally Posted by
BackToSquareOne 
That never would have worked for me Newwings, I was always the "All or nothing at all" type of drinker. One bottle of white wine would just light the fuse, I'd want more and it would turn into a binge.
Yeah, that's how I kidded myself for many, many years about my alcoholism. My maintenance drinking seemed totally legit and doable..until awful things started happening. It took forever to put it all together and realize that I didn't have to be blacking out every night to be in a right old mess - my life was falling apart at the seams, as well as myself. Thank goodness I joined SR and saw I wasn't alone.