Originally Posted by
visch1 
I'm in the process of recovering from my isms and I don't think even working on my 35th year will I be recovered. In my mind if I'm recovered I could drink in safety. I continue to need to work on the REASONS I drank and when they are all fixed perhaps I'll be recovered. JMHO BE WELL
I hear you, and if that is okay for you, your opinion is no problem for me.
Recovered for me has nothing to do with can I drink safely or not. There is no "cure" for my alcoholism illness, and I have accepted this plain and simple truth for decades now. My life however, can still be recovered, even though my alcoholism yet exists.
I look at what and where I was when I quit, and what and where I am today, and have been for decades now, and absolutely I have recovered. Future ability and allowance for drinking has nothing to do with my being recovered, and shouldn't for any one else either, is my opinion. Still, it really doesn't matter to me if your still recovering, and not recovered. What ever works, you do that, and you'll be successful in your own way.
Me, I'm all done with recovery from alcoholism. I'm RECOVERED.