Originally Posted by
sirbiznitch Quitting is hard
Quitting is easy: just don't take the first drink. Staying quit is the hard part: it means not taking that first drink.
My wife got a DUI and went to rehab before her court date. We quit drinking for a while, but then started again--several times, and we had a few more disasters.
Now, we are both going to AA meetings almost daily for 51 days, and I think that's what is going to make it stick this time.
By the way: get a lawyer. We showed up at court without a lawyer, and she was just going to plead guilty. Wrong! Fortunately, we found a lawyer in the courthouse who wasn't busy...