sugarbear1

The word "powerless" means "inability to change." Once we start, we don't stop.

Hope you are well, Dan!

eJoshua

I think one of the keys to my sobriety was making the decision to be a non-drinker and then learning how to be confortable with myself as a non-drinker. I would agree that now that I have come to peace with the fact that I don't drink that I no longer have the option of drinking; I'm just a non-drinker now, drinking alcohol is something I don't do.

Having said that... I still go to AA and introduce myself as an alcoholic. I also believe that I am fully incapable of constructing an effective mental defense against that first drink, so I rely on God to give me the grace to continue to be satisfied in myself as a non-drinker.

So I guess in some ways I have made the decision to never drink again, and it's simply no longer an option, but I also look to my HP to give me the grace to continue in my sobriety.

Probably not compatible completely with either AVRT or AA, but that's how I've been thinking about things recently.

OCDDan

Thanks eJoshua, after reading on SR for about 5 mo. or so, the decision to never drink again seems like a hard one for a lot of people, it certainly was for me, but everything has been so much easier for me since i made that decision, the decision that i can't sneek one in now and then, and i can't ever drink again.


and Thanks Sugarbear, things are going as well, or better than could be expected.