Just wish to make it clear, that during my lengthy addiction, I wasn't aware I had a choice to stop drinking, until I joined SR and discovered AVRT. Prior to that I was told that the power of choice was a higher power outside myself, that I should pray to that HP. But sadly, God didn't answer my prayers and having been raised a Catholic, I suspected he wouldn't.
ah, so interesting...during my thirty years of drinking i ALWAYS thought i had a choice and was never told anything like you were.
i was convinced that choice, power, control over this were all mine.and then decided and committed to apply them.
and crashed. repeatedly.
and despaired.
and, as an aside, i have met, online and in real life so many who were raised catholic....which seems so odd.....why?