It was a very long very slow motion slide for me. I can't isolate one event or one moment in time, but I always drank hard...I drank harder when my first long term relationship broke up...but after a year or so I actually sobered up, started a new relationship...went back to drinking heavily but irregularly...then, a few years later when my health failed and my carefully planned out future just...disappeared, I drank the hardest yet.
there was no coming back from that second drinking session, at least not until nearly 10 years later.
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