Hi and welcome back Joelr
I drank for 20 years - let a lot of people down, told a lot of lies when they accused me of drinking or lies to get out of responsibilities so I could drink.
It took more than a few months for people to trust me again...but they did - cos they could see I'd changed, not just telling people I'd changed.
Being accused falsely sucks - but responding to that mistrust by drinking again just serves to make those trust issues more problematic.
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