He doesn't get a party for doing the right thing. That would be like patting him on the back for not peeing in his pants or makign his own food. For goodness sake, when he does things a grown ass man should do acknowledgement isn't on deck for him. He's not a child, he's a man.
The codie in you is running in to the new and healthy you and you did the right thing. Plus, cutting back to just being a social drinker isn't progress and won't work. For alcoholics there is drinking and not drinking. There is no middle ground. You know damn well what's going to happen.
You are doing good. Way to control your reactions. I always looked like a smart ass when AW said **** like this. It always made it worse. Now I jsut say, I hope that works for you in a neurtral voice. It's much better.
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