Chalking up day 14...two weeks!
Feeling okay about that...and I see I lost 2 pounds each week, just by not drinking at the end of the day. So, I'm happy about that too. I love coming on here and checking in with you all and how you're doing. This is an awesome thread you got us starting on Pumpkin. I'm much obliged. I've been posting on some of the others...but I like this one the best. We have a good track record with each other. Even with the ups and downs. I like knowing you're all out there trying to stay sober and at about the same I am. Makes it not such a lonely haul. I hear what you're saying about the lack of support from people who think you're not really an alcoholic if you're not as bad as some other drunk they knew. Well, the thing is we don't want to become like some other drunk they knew! That's why we're trying to stop.
The thing is we know what we know about our own inability to manage on our own and powerlessness to drink without wanting more more more. And we know where that is leading us. So, we need to stay on the program and listen to what our higher power is telling us and pray for the grace to make it one more day. I think it is true eventually people will just accept we are non-drinkers, and most will without giving it a second thought. If someone only wants to be around drinkers, then maybe they need to face they have a problem. It isn't alcohol that makes a person interesting or not. But, alcohol has a way of binding people together because they are falling into the same pit. Its more a case of misery loves company and the blind leading the blind.