Interesting... how bizarre that someone would think it so important, that they would actually commit assault to get you to drink
Sedaris was one of the people I thought of when I was learning about AVRT. He described the moment he quit. He was visiting a friend who had just come home from inpatient rehab. He (Sedaris) wanted to drink, so he filled his friend's frig up with alcohol. Sedaris drank, and his friend did too. Sedaris felt that what he had done was deeply immoral --- satisfying his own desire to drink without any thought of his friend's situation. He was so disgusted with himself, that he said that's it, and he quit. Said he didn't seek help or go to AA because he didn't want to have to hold hands with strangers.
I'm reading his new book now. He also has a very funny and moving account of his mother's alcoholism in this week's New Yorker.