If you are an alcoholic and stopped drinking a decade ago then I commend you for being committed to getting better and improving your life. If it no longer affects your daily life in a negative way, preventing you to function and accomplish positive things, then I don't care about what you may have or may have not done poorly in the past. ie you have moved forward and that's all I would care about.You've been the one pumping hardest for 'Robbie's just suffering from an illness', so you really should take a moment to learn and understand that illness, and how one lives with it. Like AIDs there is no cure, as anyone in AA—the most successful and copied program for living with addiction—will tell you.
You can consider staying dry 'cured' if you want, just as I can consider Rob a lazy, lying, criminal, drug-abusing drunkard, and foul-mouthed, racist homophobe and misogynist. But either view is just a personal opinion until we discuss and agree what's real, and what can be done; truth is the common ground in between. Supplying the argument you then pretend to counter, as you again did above, will never get anyone there, try listening to that other view and responding to what was said instead of what you made up.
PS: Although I stopped drinking over a decade ago and never joined AA, I'm an alcoholic. Just like I'm still hooked on nicotine although I quit tobacco in the '80s. Thanks for telling me I'm cured, but I know myself better.
My point was it appears that even if Ford does what you did, the people who have and are his worst critics, would never accept his progress no matter how long he's been sober.
People who would lash out as they have been doing are not the type of people who forgive or give credit where credit is due. That takes courage and integrity.
Scarce around these parts from what I've been seeing. Much easier to judge, bully and insult from behind a keyboard.





