Originally Posted by
aussieblue 
I have been thinking about this a lot lately, I look at peoples join dates and see them back at day one , I too am one of the reoffenders , I have made it to 9 months at my longest , 6 months , 3 months , a couple of days , countless day one's , I don't know if I will ever stay stopped . I hope I can , but it's so hard . I wonder if there are varying degrees of alcoholism and I am more alcoholic than others ?
its almost as if its somehow worse if you replapse vs quiting once and staying quit. Yet it seems more the norm for people to relapse a handful of times till they get it right. I dunno why i have y et to relapse myself. I guess i just get to scared to go back to that to be honest. I for some reason dont think my family would tolerate me relapsing and that kinda scares me.
But from a quality of life perspective and in reality your better off havng some false starts and keep on trying to stay quit vs continueing to drink and not bothering to try at all to quit.