Reply #20: What got me was the "stinkin' thinkin'". [View All]

Some days it's harder than others, but the bottom line
for me is, even after 37 months and 24 days without,
if I take another drink, I'm dead. Oh, maybe not that day,
but eventually I'll plow my car into a tree, go home with
the wrong guy, take pills with the booze, whatever.

I wish I could do the one day a week thing, but my behavior
always spirals out of control.

I want to live. So I don't drink.

Congratulations, and good luck. (I don't mean this to
be controversial and I apologize in advance, but for some
of us AA is too religious, too dogmatic. Books like How to
Quit Drinking Without Aa: A Complete Self-Help Guide -- Jerry
Dorsman; and Stepping Out: Recovery Without AA -- C. Shaw
worked for me.)