Old timers- how do you explain my success?

Why are you dishonestly reading something he didn't write into what he wrote? He very likely does wish the best for you.

But he also knows you are likely not being honest with yourself. If you needed rehab and years of AA, you likely started out once before as a moderate drinker who progressed to alcoholism.

The fact is, you aren't unique. Your experience is extremely common. There's lots of people in the meetings I've been to who tell stories about how they sobered up for years, started drinking moderately again for months or years without any apparent issue, and cockily thought they had somehow conquered their addiction... until they woke up in a hospital or jail cell.

7 months of moderate drinking doesn't prove that you have beaten your propensity for addiction and it's quite likely that if something goes bad in your life, or you get over confident and decide occasional binge drinking will be fine, decide that you have handled 1-2 glasses a month so 1-2 glasses a week will be fine too or any of 100 other scenarios plays out that you'll eventually end up back in rehab. It might be 5 years from now, it might be 20 years. Or, if you're very lucky, it might be never. I'm sure there's people out there who have left the rooms and gone out and successfully been able to drink normally. Hopefully you are one of them. But only the rest of your life will prove if that's the case or not.

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