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What Finally Tempted Me To Drink
It was only a matter of time.
You might have some questions right now from the title. What does a beach ball in a pool have to do with alcohol? Didn’t I just write an article about how I’ve forgotten all about drinking?
That’s the great thing about being in recovery- you never quite forget about it, even if months go by without a craving. And this new craving was brought on by the most surprising of events.
So what happened?
The temperature is rising
As dumb as that sounds, what eventually brought on cravings for alcohol was as simple as it being close to summer.
It had been a couple of days with above 80 degree temperatures with high humidity and I had been doing my daily walk when it hit. It’s getting hot already and it’s so humid, you know what would be really refreshing? A nice cocktail or a hard seltzer. The urge to drink spiked from 0 to 100 and I was starting to feel the stress. I finished my walk and popped open a nonalcoholic beer, hoping that would satisfy my craving for alcohol.
Of course, it didn’t.
The next day, I had the craving again and tried to think of ways I could satisfy the urge that wasn’t drinking. I knew at a logical level, I didn’t want alcohol, I…
