Originally Posted by
MesaMan 
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Apparently, it's easy to overshoot the Core Basics of Sobriety.
lol Alcoholics are good at that and undermine success by complicating what is basically simple. The primary core (the very core of the core), is that
we must never drink. Yet in the beginning, that remains unacceptable for many of us, and the first thing we do is negotiate with it. When that fails, we try to negotiate that same core with some other newfangled gimmick.
An old saying comes to mind: "What part of 'No' don't you understand?" It's not that alcoholics are actually that dumb. We just have to game the system or something.