fini: "Picking up the pieces of your broken life is a separate issue." This followed my stop drinking spew.
I suppose I was speaking (writing) metaphorically concerning the 'other' issues surrounding one's propensity to drink. Or the cause and effect part of it...
As someone else previously posted, quitting drinking only solves one problem - drinking.
I realize that quitting drinking did not make my issues go away. Or the reasons that contributed to my drinking. My first priority was to stop drinking. Now, it is figuring out how to deal with it.