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Old 10-14-2016, 01:15 AM
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Dee74
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Hey Mark - I meant my good luck wish, and I don't want to seem unwelcoming....but I have to be honest.

I think the least useful thing you could do for our members here is fan the hope that controlled drinking might be possible for them too.

Even if you do manage to keep to your generous limits for 90 days, the only real conclusions you can draw are for you - they are not necessarily applicable to anyone else.

Everything I have read thus far supports the quote I highlighted from Cairn in that alcoholics are not like regular drinkers - they cannot stop irrespective of the harm being done to themselves or others. This honestly isn't me - I had a wake up call and I altered the amount I drink accordingly.
It wasn't me for a lot of the years I drank either....but then I got worse.
This thing is progressive.

I think a far more telling experiment for you would be not to drink any alcohol at all for 90 days - I think that will reveal to you the precise nature of your relationship with alcohol - and in a far healthier manner?

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