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[quote=Anonymous]OP, my DH stopped drinking several years ago. He agreed with our therapist that he would stop for a year. After the year was up, he decided to "drink moderately." That lasted a few weeks. And so I asked him to stop again. We had a little back and forth about it for about six months, during which time he read a book called "Rational Recovery." One of the theories in the book really resonated with my DH. The book called that addictive voice of the brain "the beast" (cheesy, I know). The beast can hold out for alcohol for long periods of time, so long as it knows it can get some eventually. That's when DH decided that he had to promise never to drink again. Your DH's therapist sounds terrible, frankly. Has he or she never heard of people being sober for years even, and then relapsing? To say, "well you quit for 5 months so you must not be an addict" is moronic. It really took my DH deciding never to drink again that stopped that voice for him. [/quote]
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