Deter: I hope you did okay out to dinner w/your wine-tasting friends. I've found that I can enjoy good food accompanied by selzer or water. I never really drank for the taste of the wine anyhow. It was always for the effect it had on me.
I must admit that I have to fight that old enemy of mine: denial.
-"I'm not really that bad, am I?"
-"I've never crashed my car, gotten arrested, lost a job, etc. etc."
What I usually try to do is give myself a healthy dose of reality to counteract the denial.
-"Normal drinkers do not drink whole, big bottles of pinot by themselves in one day."
-"Normal drinkers do not pass out, black out, or get violently hungover."
I just hope the bad thinking diminishes w/time. I get tired of talking myself out of it. On a brighter note, it is getting easier to talk myself out of it. That's progress.
Have a great sober weekend everybody. I'll check in later. Mary
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