Sober Thanksgiving
For the past few years, my Thanksgiving tradition has been to spend the morning snowboarding, the afternoon eating (and drinking), and the evening watching holiday movies (and drinking of course).
This year, I'll be going to an extremely large dinner with my girlfriend and her family and I know there will be drinking there.
My problem is not that I'll be tempted to drink. I'm so sick of the idea of alcohol that I don't want anything to do with it (that's where I'm at in my recovery right now). My problem is that I know I'll be asked if I'd like a drink. I can turn the offer down with a nice, "Ahhh, I'm alright. Thanks though" and I'm sure everything will be fine. I just don't want the stares of "I'm sorry" and "poor you" from people at this dinner who know I have issues with alcohol. Who know's, that probably won't even happen. Now that I'm sober though, I find myself worrying that my drinking will always sort of sneak in to every situation... Hopefully that makes sense???
Anyways, I really don't know why I felt the need to write this, but I did.
Have a great Thanksgiving everyone!
DNVR