I'm not sure why Bim and I got different answers when we said pretty much the same thing.
Arrogance? I've still yet to meet anyone as arrogant as I was LOL so arrogance is in itself not that great a barrier to recovery IMO.
what was a barrier was the fact that as crummy as my life was, I got used to it, I could do what I had to do and get drunk the rest of the time.
I led a selfish life and one geared to satisfying my desires.
The farthest I looked ahead was tomorrow morning and would I have enough booze for a heartstarter.
Things had to get pretty bad before I gave that up.
I dunno what your life is like - maybe it's like mine was or maybe it's completely different....but there must be something pulling you back into old habits and making you think that journey is worthwhile.
I thought I had it made, but I was like the frog sitting happily in the saucepan of water being slowly boiled to death.
I hope you're smarter than me, Daredevil.
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