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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I would prove him wrong and no drink[/b].[/quote]

This. Give it 30 days without one drink. If you can do it, you're not an alcoholic. 
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[b]This is wrong. 15 years age my brother almost drank himself to death at 40, and then stopped when he miraculously recovered instead of dying. He hasn't touched it since. But he is, and will always be, an alcoholic.[/b] [/quote]

Whoa Whoa WHOA! What OP is doing is NOT "drinking herself to death" Can you not read?  :shock: [/quote]

Let’s try it another way so maybe you can be less reactive and understand it. My husband stopped drinking six years ago. Never for the rest of his life will he say this means that he is “not an alcoholic.” Because he is an alcoholic whether he is drinking or not. He’s in recovery—but he’s still an alcoholic. If OP consumes no alcohol for 30 days, it doesn’t prove that she is “not an alcoholic.” It proves that she didn’t consume alcohol for 30 days.[/quote]

I've already self-corrected and apologized for my post - I thought I was responding to what OP was saying. I did not expand on the previous conversation that I was directly responding to hence my error. Seems like you may have done the same thing. [/quote]

You're right, I did. However, I do think the point is worth making explicitly: having a substance use disorder is about more than just whether the substance is actively being consumed; it's even about more than whether the substance is consumed daily or not.

If OP in fact is alcohol-dependent and/or has an alcohol use disorder, she needs more than just cessation for 30 days to prove to her husband (who might be a rational concerned spouse or might be a controlling whack job or anywhere in between--we haven't heard from her again) that she can. She needs treatment.

If she's not alcohol-dependent and/or doesn't have a substance use disorder and cessation for 30 days is just to prove something to a spouse...well I guess the question is why the spouse thinks this proves anything. See above.

It's never a bad choice to be a non-drinker, but leaping to DCUM-level shaming of people's initial descriptions of their own situations is rarely a good choice. [/quote]

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