Well said jaynie!!
Thinking of myself as a non-drinker, is wonderful! Over the years either drinking or "working on" not drinking, has practically taken over who I am, and who I see myself as. I have forgotton who I was! Or who I can be.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life defined as a person in relation to drink.
Drinking, in all it's forms, did fill up all the space in my life, either doing it, or not doing it.
And yet just one activity in the human spectrum