Why would it ever be important to emphasize that a person wanting to end problematic drinking cannot make an unbreakable promise to never drink again, when FOR ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES, it is patently obvious that he or she CAN make that exact promise? I will never drink again!
herein lies the problem: it works for you and some others,but has been proven for hundreds of years it doesnt work that way for everyone.
one reason for the why of it-
alcoholics can become beyond self help. its a fact proven here time and again.
if it was as simple as that,people wouldnt die daily from alcoholism.
if you truly want to learn why,there are some excellent studies outon the www. you may want to look up william silkworth. he had some pretty good observations. he worked with or talked to 40,000 drunks in his day.
can a pedophile stop being a pedophile with a promise?
a rapist? a theif?
can someone with bi polar stop exhibiting the symptoms because they made a promise?
its just not how it works.
maybe read around the forum some? theres thousands of cases right here on alcoholism alone the show a promise isnt enough for many.
it is what it is.
prime numbers dont exist because there are no numbers. they dont exist.i promise.
