freshstart57

Shanti, you speak so lovingly about your daughter, and how your decisions for her safety and well-being are moral decisions in your mind.

I have given this idea a lot of thought on my end. I have come to this: I have a dear friend who lost her husband and beautiful baby girl at 6 weeks to a drunk driver who ran a stop sign. The carnage was horrific - three people died in that instant, and two families were damaged forever. I think about her and her grief and how I would put people at risk by drinking, people like her sweet innocent child.

This is kind of morbid and excessive I suppose, but I use this idea to make drinking ever again a moral issue for me. I can now never drink again since I will always make this association in my mind. That is how I know I will never ever drink again.

Db1105

I got sober when I was 17 and every once in a while those thoughts pop in my head. A quick review of my drinking history puts those thoughts away. For me, drinking again is just like playing Russian Roulette. I may get away with it a few times but eventually it would kill me.

I also believe that the drinking is just one symptom of my alcoholism.