Drinking after AA

[Guest guest]

I have purposely held back this post because of the negative fear

that AA instilled into me for 10 years, convincing me that I would

end up in the gutter if I ever took a drink again, and the fear it

put into my family that it would be curtains for Dad if he lifted a

drink.

Well I am happy to report that I have been having the odd glass of

wine with a meal and the odd whisky in an evening for the past year,

and curiously enough I have never wanted more than 2, usually only 1.

I was waiting in dread for that compulsion to continue after the

first one and drink myself into oblivion, but it just has not

happened, far from it.

I am still grateful to AA for stopping the drunken rollercoaster that

I was on. But now wish that their recovery programme gave 2 different

viewpoints. 1. that with some people it is possible to drink socially

again, and 2. that with some people it is not possible, and that only

ourselves can discover which kind of person we are.

AA has probably taught me a lot about what can happen when a person

aver indulges and has probably made me a more responsible person, but

why o why are they so dogmatic about total abstinance for everyone

who walks through their doors.

Cheers from Phil.