Originally Posted by
MisterA 
Wow. That is a powerful thought. I did have a relationship with a girl who loved me deeply before. And she was like, hot hot, like she could be a model. I’m not bragging, to this day I still have no idea what she liked about me. It was like a fluke or something. But I would actually ditch her to go drink by myself sometimes. Often, actually.
I guess alcoholics will always come up with reasons to drink. I suppose I’m just trying to prep myself so when the trigger eventually comes by, I’ve already processed it, and it won’t just hit me like a train or something.
Great insight Mister A. A guy did a bit of a “hands up” survey in an AA workshop one time. Hands up if you drank when you had good relationship, bad relationship, good job, great job, bad job, no job, happy, sad, good day, bad day, ordinary day, tragedy, joyous occasion, lotsa money, no money etc.
Most hands went up for most of those things. The point being that external circumstances are not the issue. It’s an inside job.