Who's fault is it?

[angussdundee]

When our friends and family suggest to us that we might have a drinking problem, they're probably right.
When we discount the possibility that there is a drinking problem, we're probably practicing denial.
I blamed everything and everyone for my drinking - my wife, my family, my parents, my job, even the government!
Turned out I was wrong on every score. I was having drinking problems because I was doing the wrong thing, not because someone else was. Oddly enough, when I started attending AA on a regular basis and eventualy stopped drinking my feelings started to change towards all the people and things that I thought were making me drink. When I changed, so did they.

Anguss.

[samf]

Oh, Anguss! Makes so much sense!!!

I tried so hard to control and enjoy my drinking. It was really the center of my world...not anything else. It was the way I coped with everything.

It wasn't until I got to AA that I learned my body processes alcohol differently than someone that can drink one or two drinks and stop.

I would point my finger at everything else, and tell myself that if those people or things would just change, then I wouldn't have to drink.

Today, I understand that wasn't true, but I do remember that it sure felt like it, at the time. I just didn't know.

Love,

Sam