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To: jmacusa; Persevero
Sooooo....

Did you eventually give it up voluntarily?

If so, then it was voluntary from beginning to end.

If you were forced to give it up, and are being forcibly kept away from access to it, then you have my sincere apologies for the bolded part above.

Full disclosure: For a few years I drank way too much, voluntarily; I quit voluntarily the day I found myself in the grocery trying to decide between food and alcohol.

8 posted on 06/13/2011 7:17:42 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (Freedom is saying "No!" to the Feds, and getting away with it. "Speak 'NO' to Power!")
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To: ExGeeEye

I didn’t ‘’give it up’’ . I had a choice, keep drinking and die or try getting sober one day at a time. Nothing about being addicted is ‘’voluntary’’ any more then a diabetics condition is ‘’voluntary’’. Putting the cork in the bottle isn’t enough. You have to change the person you were or you will drink again. And then , having had a spiritual awakening as a result of turning one’s will over to the care of a Higher Power, in my case God and AA, we try to carry the message to the still suffering alcoholic. Carry it on, as it were. And btw, you can’t force an alcoholic to do anything they don’t want. The number one characteristic of an alcoholic isn’t denial, it’s defiance.


13 posted on 06/18/2011 12:56:48 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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