[ansel12]

You have to become a non-drinker, someone who doesn’t drink.

Playing the game of someone trying to quit, is a path to repeatedly finding reasons to fall off the wagon.

There will always be a reason to fall off the wagon, every few years something truly catastrophic befalls us, a child dying, a parent dying, or even losing our job, losing the transmission on the car and our husband leaving, all in the same month, one has to decided that they are no longer a drinker, so that there can be no drinking to fall back on.

[proud American in Canada]

‘Playing the game of someone trying to quit, is a path to repeatedly finding reasons to fall off the wagon.

There will always be a reason to fall off the wagon, every few years something truly catastrophic befalls us’

_________________________________________________

You are right. Thank you.

No drinking to fall back on? Yikes! :)

Well, I have begun running in the past week; I got new shoes (my old running shoes are over 20 years old).

It’s not as quick, it’s not as easy, but running really makes a difference. I used to run a lot when I was in my 20’s and I think this will help.

[Resettozero]

You have to become a non-drinker, someone who doesn’t drink.

It's true for any harmful habit, including cigs, drugs, porn, gambling, TV and movies. Not easy, but true.

No good comes for being a slave to something when you don't have to be a slave.

Take hope from knowing many others have been where you are and realized that they had to cease doing hurt to themselves and the least expensive way is just to stop. So we have.

[AppyPappy]

“Playing the game of someone trying to quit, is a path to repeatedly finding reasons to fall off the wagon.”

Agree.
If you want to quit, YOU have to quit. No one can quit it for you. If you do something wrong, you have to own it.
No one drove me to drink. I drove there myself.