For me, the nice thing about AVRT is that although my desire is gone for the most part, I rarely think about drinking anymore, but if I did I've now learned how to handle those thoughts without letting them overpower me. It's a relief for me to know that my recovery doesn't require removal of the desire because what if that desire always lingered? Instead of a divorce with no contact, it's a separation where I live with intermittent brief pleas from my AV to start the relationship back up where we left off, that I can easily brush off.