MIRecovery

Searching for door number 3 kept me drinking for 30 years

Door number one was dying a horrible alcoholic death. I didn't want that door

Door number two was one hundred percent abstinence. I didn't want that door

SO for 30 years I searched for door number 3.

IT WAS NOT UNTIL I ACCEPTED THAT THERE IS NO DOOR NUMBER 3. THAT DOOR NUMBER 3 IS A LIE TOLD TO US BY ALCOHOLISM THAT I HAD ANY CHANCE AT RECOVERY

silentrun

I really like that. I read the title and thought "there is a door 3?" I only saw 2 doors. Door 1 all in or door 2 all out. Of course an incident happened right at the precise moment I was about to stumble through door 1 that gave me a peek behind the curtain. Yeah it can pester me and try to control me, but it can't deceive me anymore.

MIRecovery

I call those God moments not accidents. Stay sober my friend there is an absolutely wonderful world behind door number 2 although it does not look like it at the beginning

silentrun

It kind of felt like a "God" moment. A lot of times throughout the last 5 months it feels like I am being shown the way.

MIRecovery

God has done for me what I could not do for myself. I do get on my knees every day and ask God for the obsession and compulsion to drink to be lifted from me for this day. at night I thank him for a day of sobriety. My Higher Power has kept me sober for almost 4 years so it seems to be working

silentrun

In retrospect I had no free will when it came to the alcohol. If you would have told me on Feb 9 I had to quit drinking I would not have even know how to take the first step. On Feb 10 after I took my last drink you couldn't have forced one down me. Something intervened on my behalf. Maybe the power's that be knew I wasn't ever going to ask for help so it just gave it to me. What ever happened I am grateful for it.