Originally Posted by
steve-in-kville 
Then life got in the way....
You mean, then you made a decision to drink when you could have decided to do something else, like come here or go to an online meeting.
Life has ups and downs, but we have to negotiate the hills without drinking, or using them as excuses to drink again, and we really do make the choices that lead to whatever outcomes we arrive at. Those chains of choices usually start long before we actually put a drink to our lips.