Dry Dates

I once asked an alcoholic who no longer drank, why they continued to go to those AA meetings.  The sober person said, "I go to meetings so that I will not have any more dry dates."  What is a dry date?  It turns out that a dry date is the first day that a person stops drinking.  That date is when they feel terrible, and have no program of recovery.  Often they have lost a lot of things such as family, friends, job and health.  If the person in recovery stops going to meetings, he/she believes that there will be a return to no program and feeling terrible again.  It is called a dry drunk.  That is until they begin to drink again.  Avoid dry dates.  Let your last one be your last one.