joyousone

You make phone calls early in the day to family members so that they won't call you later after you're drunk. Your hamper is filled with empty wine bottles. You spend half of the day afraid that someone is mad at you for something you said or did the nite before. You reward yourself with a few bottles of wine just because you fooled everyone at a family function. You get a weird feeling in your stomach after work that tells you you have to get a bottle or two of wine even if you really don't want to......the list seems to be endless. : (

joyousone

You check your eyes in all different kinds of light to see if they are yellowing. You are constantly wondering why your abdomen seems "fat"?

LadyBug66

Wow.... So much of this hits home with me. Thank you for sharing this.... It has helped me more than you all know!

beatle

You get panic stricken when your wife walks close to your car for fear she will see all the empty's you have rolling around in the back.

deeker

You have to puke in a parking lot on the way to work.

(Oh The Memories)

Nighthawk8820

You dread logging onto facebook after a night of drinking, because 99% of the time, you said something you regret.

Your local liquor store gives you a Christmas gift for another year of great business.

You dont like looking in the mirror, because you cant recognize the person staring back at you.

MC23

I relate to this big time right now!

To echo LadyBug66's sentiments, this thread has also helped me out a lot!

Zencat

...you, with a bold face, lie to family members, employers and whoever about your massive volumes of drinking.

MC23

...You're always worrying about those around you noticing you have the shakes

GreenEggsAndHam

Love this thread - see so much of myself in so many posts!


You promise your doctor that you won't drink with the painkillers and muscle relaxers prescribed to you due to an injury, but you do anyway. Heavily.

You have a drink before any type of appointment with any person ever just to take the edge off.

MC23

Definitely relate to this GreenEggs! Only with me it's more like "go five days in a row forgetting entirely to take medication because your drunk" or "being too scared to take medication in the evening because you've already got too drunk during the day and don't want the pills to make you vomit"!!

calico

Before stumbling into the shower, you check your rib area for spider veins and then try to determine whether your right (liver) side looks larger than your left.

Then later, at work, you try not to breathe or stand too close to anyone, for fear your co-workers will detect burnoff from last night’s alcohol.

Adillac

Disposing of "empties" becomes like hiding a body...in manageable pieces, late at night, carefully placed in the dumpster so as not to arouse suspicion...

Adillac

You are proud of the fruit fly traps you have "built".

Waterforme

You celebrate 30 days of sobriety by drinking.

Carlotta

You turn down social invitations from your friends and coworkers because you'd rather wallow in your misery home alone with your drinks.

Carlotta

You bite in an onion before leaving the house and carry an onion in your purse.

Adillac

Wow, so true..

trailrunrbyday

you choose not to ask your spouse a question for fear that the response will be "we already discussed this........"

your legs cramp so badly in bed from lack of whatever good it is that you are lacking (since you cannot get it from the diet of 95% alcohol) in the middle of the night...that they are always sore.

you realize that most days - you didn't eat anything solid

you hate yourself

you find empties that you don't even remember hiding and feel very thankful that YOU found them

You start being okay with not taking empties back for deposit return because it's easier to hide them in the garbage/dispose of them in public trash bins.

You are desperately afraid that you will miss the childhood of your last remaining child at home. Too late for the others.

Your friends stops calling.

Your family stops calling

you know that you are very close to losing everything if you haven't already

you haven't seen the end of a movie or program in a very long time

Adillac

"you haven't seen the end of a movie or program in a very long time"

haha, yes..