"As alcoholics, we have lost the ability to control our drinking. We have lost this ability permanently." (Once you change a cucumber into a pickle you can never change it back.)
"People with strong willpower in all other areas of life will have zero willpower when it comes to drinking. Alcoholism doesn't care who you are or what you've done. We have plenty of knowledge about ourselves as alcoholics but we just ignore it all when we want to drink." (Never met anyone who wasn't bright enough to grasp The Program but I've sure run into a lot of folks too smart to pick up the essentials and stay sober.)
"The members of A.A. have learned to see and understand the signs of a relapse. We know how alcoholics think. We know how they're feeling when they want to stop drinking and cannot do it. We can see when someone is only doing some of the things needed to stay sober." (And I'll tell you this - it's usually not difficult to see when someone is dicking around with their recovery program and gotten back on the Road to Perdition. You're not fooling us. You can't bullshit a bullshitter. New people are like teenagers trying to pull the wool over the eyes of their parents. You think we haven't tried to get away with the same crap you're trying to get away with?)
"Even if we are smart and sensible in all other areas of life, when alcohol is involved we seem almost insane. It's strong language, but to most of us it feels true. We feel as though we have lost our sanity. Actual alcoholics will be absolutely unable to stop drinking just because they want to."
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