I'm not powerless over alcohol because I was never dependent on it. I also have had long times of sobriety always broken up by a day that I drank. Maybe I drank for a couple of weeks and got sick of it. Alcohol is not progressive for me and I don't consider it a disease...just my opinion. It's a choice. My drinking is far less now than it ever was. But then I was only an abuser of alcohol...not addicted to it. I'm way more messed up on the Codie alanon side...adult child...all that crazy stuff.
If you went to a bar and there was an attractive alcoholic sitting on one stool and your favorite drink sitting on the next stool...which would you choose?
My answer...the alcoholic.
I didn't plan on marrying three of them either. It is way hard living with an addict but I'm having better days...plus Eastern philosophy such as Taoism and Buddhism and meditation really helps me to let go and allow the world and others to be.