There are several on here that, have not. I've not had a drink in almost 14 years. Such a difficult question to ask unless, they do some type of survey at rehabs on returning alcoholics.
I heard something today at a speaker picnic that, I can relate to i keep coming back because I want more sobriety and serenity. I no longer wish to have the insanity that goes hand and hand with my drinking. Life's hard enough dsealing with the normal people that, bring drama into our live's and in my case the alocholics in my own family. My son's a returning vet from Afghanistan and he's tried to drink the demons away from the war. He's taken any thought of my wanting a drink watching his life go down the drain.
Someone returning from a slip reaffirms our belief's it always gets worse and never I repeat never gets better