Originally Posted by
VTworkaholic 
I'm headed into my ninth day without a drink. Today, it has been hard. Very hard. We went by my watering hole twice. I walked passed a liquor store saying "just one nip" to get my through the day.
So here I am... Wide open for feedback.
Pretty much the whole time I drank, for over 30 years, I was convinced that if I
had to stop, like if a doctor told me I needed to quit, I could. Funny how I ignored medical advice to cut back, or my own body telling me it was time to quit.
So when I did decide to quit, I struggled and failed. Wait, I thought, this is harder than I thought. That's when the veil of denial started to drop, when I accepted I had a problem with alcohol, and I dealt with it accordingly.
You can to, if indeed you are ready to quit. For good.