Old 02-09-2011, 12:33 PM
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Cyranoak
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You are not alone. The amount of alcohol and pot I consumed during the first years of wife's drinking is so scary I avoid thinking about it (I've got a 100 percent denial policy on this topic).

I'll tell you one thing, if I had the money I spent on both between 1998 and 2005, I'd be living pretty large today. Control freak that I am, the moment I realized I was too drunk and stoned to control things the way I wanted, I stopped.

That's when I learned that I can't control things the way I want sober either. That pissed me off, but it also got me moving the right direction in my own
Al-Anon recovery.

Take what you want and leave the rest,

Cyranoak

P.s. I did all this without a physical compulsion to drink and smoke. It was all emotional and psychological for me and I'm very lucky. Had I the physical propensity I'm fairly certain I'd be dead right now, and I'm certain I wouldn't have been able to simply stop.
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