Originally Posted by
AVRT 
That's the beauty of it, but yes, some people assume that I must be constantly struggling to stay sober, hanging on for dear life and avoiding triggers as if they were landmines. Not so. If and when a thought of drinking comes, I dissociate from it, and there is calm. :-)
Well, and there's also this notion out there that addiction is a lifelong struggle--that once you've been addicted the rest of your life must be continually devoted to fighting the battle. Often people don't believe me when I tell them that there is absolutely no struggle involved for me anymore--that there WAS, for a few years, but now all it takes is my self-identity as a non-drinker. (I jokingly tell people that I would no more drink alcohol than I would sleep with my ex-husband--both things that I used to do, but which hold no temptation for me anymore
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