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Old 06-04-2015, 01:38 PM
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Gottalife
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It started out as, "oh, just have two beers. It will taste great and will go great with the movie."
" Second, I do have the will power to stay clean even when there is a lot of social pressure to drink."

Lessons learned and questions to be asked - I had a simlar experience.

I learned I had the phenomenon of craving, which really pinned down exactly what the problem is.

Questions to be answered: What happened to my willpower? Where did it go? Why didn't I remember why I stopped drinking? Why didn't the obvious consequences provide sufficient reason to stop me. How come the insane idea of just a couple of beers win out over past experience?

And for me it wasn't the first time. When I look back at past horrors, when I consider the horror stories that other people have told me, I have to ask why even those stories did not spring to mind to save me from temptation.

Until I found a way to address these questions, this experience could and probably would repeat itself.
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