| paulmh and gettinsober
I haven't posted 5 postings yet so I cannot send a private message to either of you.
PaulMH - thank you for writing what you wrote below back in December. It's amazing how that one sentence (the second part) just calms me. One would think I am smart enough to figure it out on my own....but after I read that sentence I felt like I had something to hold onto...it literally puts my mind at ease.
You wrote this to GettinSober back in December:
So - my response to your question is two-fold. I "overcame" the problem of boredom firstly by learning to do lots of things I couldn't previously do. And secondly, I learned (or am learning) how to just be in a moment and enjoy it for what it is - whatever it presents as. So now, I'm less likely to get bored, and when I do, I just accept that that's my state. And it's not a good reason to drink.
GettinSober - My story reads almost exactly as yours and we're also the same age...2 to 3 bottles of wine every night for the past 5 years. I also read another post in response to yours that hit me as I was driving home tonight...the cost of the wine! I don't drink Two Buck Chuck..wish I could have now that the numbers have been crunched. If it really is 10k per year on wine then between the two of us we've spent over 100k in the past 6 years...wow...eye opener. I could have 50k more in my bank acct. But what I have is a fatty liver and 5 years of wasted time.
I'm on day 5...again...
Blessings...
Fishy226
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