Originally Posted by
Chadders 
Thanks RDB3. I am very serious about sobriety and recovery, but I'm trying to get the balance right. If I get fed up with disciplining myself in sobriety, might I just go back to the old ways? I need to continue as I am for the time being, I know that, but as I said I'm already starting to think about the future and goals but I don't want to upset what I've currently achieved.
I could never sustain the "discipline" for long. I always got tired of it because it became a chore, and looked like constant self sacrifice, so I always went back to the old ways.
Difficult as it may be to understand until you have experienced it, what RDB3 is suggesting quite rapidly changed the whole staying sober deal from a chore or discipline, into a pleasure. It resulted in a whole new outlook on life for me which has brought about permanent sobriety. I have a pretty cool life these days and the thought of drinking or not drinking never comes up. That problem has gone.