Starting Again
Today is my first day posting and about my tenth time of trying to leave alcohol behind me. I did not start drinking until almost 40 but quickly drank too much and too often. In 1998 I began two successful years of sobriety but then convinced myself I could drink normally after seeing a feature on moderate and measured drinking. Well that was just not true for me and probably not for any alcoholic. Now that I have retired, there is so much more time to drink and the physical price now seems so much higher.
I want to feel better, think more clearly and get rid of this chain around my body and soul. I hope that communicating honestly in the supportive forum will keep me taking steps forward each day and that I won't pick up that first drink today.