Grieving a lot. Personal matters.
Was a positive drinking experience Monday. Since then I am choosing to abstain, out of sheer desire, for many days.
I know there are readers watching me, expecting me to fail, even wanting me to fail at becoming a consistent moderate drinker (the CultAA Nazis who blatantly call me "an alcoholic in denial!").
(I should add that I can't blame my attackers because, after all, they have been brainwashed to think that way.)
But I know there are even more readers rooting for me and believing in me.
And I know I'm helping and inspiring others, just as the programs I'm in are helping and inspiring me.
With The Intention Of Achieving Balance And Control Over Drinking And Being Fully Deprogrammed From CultAA--which I am learning to forgive, and let go of. Research teaches us that 1 out of 3 people are problem drinkers, but 90% of problem drinkers are Not Alcoholics and can change.
My Drinking History: Over four decades of mostly problem drinking, five drunken-related arrests in my 20s (the early 80s), of abstinence and binge-drinking, of trying moderation and usually-or-often failing, of being immersed in almost every other recovery group out there, but of being mostly sober.