your not.
its okay to feel that, sure its expected, but you need to recognize why. it sounds like you know that if you started stopping the drinky, a lot would change. i definitely know what it feels like to be dependent on alcohol, all it wants is to be feed, at your expense and everyone around you. the knowledge of this all occurring, wanting out, but, not taking the right steps or even knowing them, can really compound everything, to the bottle even further.
that cycle has to stop, you need to know what it is doing to yourself. do you blow a lot off of what people have to say about you drinking... or being drunk? if so, write them all down, write a pros and cons list about your feelings, and understandings of how alcohol is affecting your life. look at them closely, dont stop to think while writing.
put the list in a drawer for a week or several days, then go back to it, and slowly think about what you are thinking... take in each thought and analyze it in a sense from your current perspective, the one you had while writing, and a 3rd persons... what would you say, in all honestly to some one else in your shoes, at that or any further moments.
we set ourselves up for relapse a good while before the event - alkys are maybe the most manipulative of all the addicts, we manipulate ourselves to no end, we can also manipulate our minds out of cravings as well. we alkys are goddamned stubborn, to no end, we can be stubborn enough to fight this.
my last days of drinking where mayhem, and at the tail end of a 3 month psychosis/agoraphobia lapse, along with 6-10mgs+ of klonopin, my consumption rate was inexcusable, complete dead on sub-conscience self destruction and utter addiction.
i fought it and gawked at any mention of any positive effects that may come with quitting, or just how i really really needed to stop. i wish i would of listened!!! i love and adore wine and cognac, i will swish and spit it if its good enough, but it hasnt entered my body other then in food for over a year.
life makes more sense, the realities are amazingly crushing here, but im able to accept them, deal with them, make sense of them, because i want to, and know i need to much much more then i need to drink.
jeez, um i hope some of that made sense, sincerely.
take care... and i promise, it gets easier and easier everyday.
