The Invisible Threshold

I took my first drink when I was twelve and my last of anything when I was 24, but there were hard years in-between in the contest between alcohol and me. When my side of the scorecard read zero, my family had just been evicted and losing custody of our child was looming. My husband and I reached that point of willingness to try AA. We went into treatment around the same time and we both stayed the entire 28 days. AA members brought meetings in and we got to get in the bus and got to meetings in the area and living life sober seemed possible. I moved into a halfway house after since my husband was my long time drinking buddy. I followed the rules there, got a job, got a sponsor, did my share of chores and listened to what the other newly-sober women had to say.