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One Year Since My Drinking Incident

It was one year last year since I had my incident that lead to me not drinking. It was at the last Easter party we had at my parent's house last year when I got so drunk that I passed out while preparing to eat cake, came to with my face in cake, and then walked my way upstairs to a room and passed out again. Around the 13th of April it will have been 6 months since my last drink. I knew it had been a year for a long time (well, since I knew that yesterday was Easter) but it didn't 'click' until yesterday afternoon just before we had another Easter party at my Aunt's house.

I didn't think it was on my mind much until that night when I had a dream that my cousin, who was there at the party, gave someone next to me a rum and coke and gave me a coke but it looked just like the rum and coke the person next to me had. She said, "That's just a coke because that's all you have now isn't it?". I shook my head 'yes' but felt uneasy because I didn't trust that the drink I had was just a coke. I was worried that she had switched the drinks on accident because they were so similar looking. But I was also kind of hoping that I had a rum and coke. So I moved the glass to my nose and smelled to see if I could smell the rum. All I could smell was ice as I looked down and saw a ton of ice and just a little bit of coke at the bottom. So I had to make a decision; do I drink the coke with the chance it might have rum in it or not? Before I decided I woke up. Now I'm not trained in dream work but if I were I would have had a fucking field day with that one.

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One last thing I forgot to mention. My parents, because my family is full of nosy people, asked me why I wasn't drinking anymore. So I told them. Then they explained that they didn't think I had a problem because I quit to easily. I told them that I had tried to quit several times before and this time it took me several months. That over the course of this one year of trying to quit I've been clean for about 6 months of those 12 months. They still didn't think there was a problem. I then asked them how long would I have had to have struggled with alcohol before I met 'problem' status? They said they didn't know just that it's not a problem but if I want to quit that's fine. But they ultimately think I don't have a problem.

I don't know this bugs me as much as it does. Because, at the end of the day, all their saying is that I'm not an alcoholic and isn't that a good thing? Don't people not want that label? But it also seems as if they are marginalizing what I had to overcome and my success in dealing with the problems that I had. It's disrespectful to me but I know it's dumb that it is.