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Old 05-16-2016, 08:54 AM
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biminiblue
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You can make it through.

My last real period of romanticizing drinking was at six months of sobriety. It seems common in recovery to have stronger periods of desire return around significant milestones, and six months is a big one.

Stay the course. Nothing good would come of a day on the patio with a beer or a cocktail. (Or 15 cocktails, because, really.)

The romance of summertime can bring this on - but play the tape through all the way through the drinking, the hangover, the remorse, the illness, the fear that you could really damage yourself, the possibility of arrest or accident.

Onward. Have some iced tea and wings on the patio. You'll never wake up wishing you had had that pint and a shot, I promise.
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