Originally Posted by
daredevil 
a calamity is not always an unlikely scenario.
What, specifically, would you imagine the most likely calamity be in your case?
Originally Posted by daredevil
BP notwithstanding, anyone who has been through one, knows, that despite the unbreakable pledge, it’s not that hard for alcoholics (ex-drinkers, non-drinkers, formerly-addicted, or any derivation thereof) to start drinking again.
It wasn’t until I made the Big Plan that I recognized I had burned a brand new short circuit in my neuronal response to any and all opportunities to drink. As soon as that old, habituated desire pops into mind the short circuit zaps it off to the “strictly an imagination not to be enacted” pidgeon-hole in the unimportant stuff area of my brain. And that started happening immediately after I made my Big Plan.
The Abstinence Commitment Effect (ACE of Rational Recovery) was that great feeling of knowing it was OVER, and my recovery was over, too.