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07-12-2015, 03:56 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by HitRockBottom70

April, The only advice I can give you is from my experience. I was right at 2 years +or- a few weeks. We went on a wonderful vacation to Europe. I decided I was able to prove I could drink, once in a great while. After the vacation, I decided I could drink moderately, then ok to get drunk with friends, then ok to get drunk at home, then start hiding how much I was actually drinking. Back to the hole I started in. I'm at day 5 now and it sucks. It could have been prevented... That AV is sneaky.

Yep.

Same story here, different particulars.

It's so easy to delude ourselves into a gradual return to misery.

Yet it's far easier to avoid... When we simply do not allow that first 'just one', we never wind up back down the hole.