Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.
AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking, but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are...
You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to...
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.
Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.
People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating alcoholism as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with t...
I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.
I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of mys...