Mir,
It hurt to hear about your daughter.
They say there is no wrong way to get sober. I think, if something worked for 25 years it worked. It reminds me of love. I have heard if it didn't last forever, it wasn't real. I have been in loves that came and went, but you can't tell me they weren't real. Things happened. Things changed. We pick ourselves up, we dust ourselves off, we get ourselves back together and we carry on. I think if it was a matter of deciding on a method after a relapse after a very long time, I would look real close at something that had worked for a very long time before I would reject it as not good enough for me.