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r/stopdrinking • … • u/npeggsy

Captain Morgan's 0% Spiced Rum- a warning

I've been consistently sober for three years, and I'm comfortable around alocohol. I drink AF beers, I've been on nights out, I've been offered alcohol and turned it down. As far as knew, I was good.

I'd heard that this brand of AF rum was good, because it tastes like the original. I thought I'd give it a go, bought a bottle, and make a rum and coke. As soon as I tasted it, I flashed back. So many drunken messy nights, so many uneccessary rum and cokes that pushed me into bad situations. I nearly threw up.

I checked the bottle, it was definitely the AF version. But it's so close to the original, it's stuck my brain into overdrive, and it keeps on going "you're doing the bad thing, you shouldn't be drinking rum, what are you doing."

Taking a positive away from this, it didn't make me want to drink. In fact, it did the opposite. I feel like I've ended up with the mental stress of relapsing, but luckily, without actually relapsing, so there are no physical health/general life messes I've created for myself. The rest of the bottle is going down the sink.

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