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Old 04-29-2023, 05:39 AM
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biminiblue
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Well, on this forum we try to be accepting of all forms of recovery. That phrase, "A real alcoholic," is something some people in AA say but don't fool yourself that you can ever go back to drinking normally because you've had an easy recovery. Once that line is crossed into habitual, and daily heavy drinking occurs? Don't poke that bear ever again. Did you detox on your own, too, or in hospital?

I think you're doing great and you're very lucky indeed. Take that gift and run with it.

I don't think any of us have crystal balls here on this site, though, as far as whether or not you'd have some struggle at some point in the future. I started back drinking after many years of being sober and those sober years had not been difficult for me to achieve. It took me another seven years of drinking for it to show me why I'd quit the first time and to quit again, including the last year of heavy drinking that was going to take me down.

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