"Robert McGregor" <robert_mcgregor@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> Reprinted in "Best Of The Grapevine."
>
>
> Slips and Human Nature
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> by William Duncan Silkworth, MD
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> January 1947
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>
> Obviously, he
> decides to take a drink again some time before he actually takes it.
> He starts thinking wrong before he actually embarks on the course that
> leads to a slip.
>
Thanks for sharing...that's what happened to me over the xmas holidays,
after 3 months sober and well...a glass of wine at dinner turned into a week
long relapse...kind of scary. But I realize it "started with the first
think" several days prior, letting my guard down, thinking it would be ok to
indulge.

james