Originally Posted by Pigtails
I just want to be happy with my own life in the here and now while exploring my options and then eventually put a plan into place and execute it. It feels overwhelming to do be doing this and not drinking, which I'm so used to... but then again perhaps I can never have the life I want (whatever that is...) if I don't address the drinking issue.
That's not usual in the
real word...or at least as I have experienced it. Everything is
not either or
OR. Its a blend of what is real (for me) and what I want to be real.
Its not uncommon from my involvement with active drinkers to see that at some level drinking
still serves a function for them. I don't usually associated with the all or nothing bunch. I have in the past...but those that I have known are willing to drink themselves to death...and despite my best efforts to help them...they do...
or they clean up on their own.
I personally think its way
cool that your looking into some of the possibilities that you may not have considered until you joined SR... at the...
I feel the elevated level you have put into this sight...your recovery journey if you will