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Thumpalumpacus Thanks for the warm welcome, y'all.
But it put into stark relief something I've known intellectually, but never really observed in action before: the rationalization of the alcoholic brain, pointing to whatever external condition, good or bad, as a rationale to drink. This clearly implies that external events are perhaps irrelevant to sobriety in the end, and that inner conditions matter most of all.
You nailed it, I think. External events will always be there, always.