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Old 05-19-2014, 08:27 AM
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RobbyRobot
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Yeah, the good times we had, eh?

Not so fast....

Being early in your sobriety is the thing here, in my opinion, and sooner or later you were going to have to face the deeper desires you once enjoyed satisfying with drinking a cold one. It's not about you're missing something in your plans to stay sober, its really you've finally made a difference in your life on quitting that is causing you to actually change out your lifestyle, and so naturally those challenges inherent in change are becoming felt.

The alcohol-starved chickens have come home to roost sort of thing going on here, where we in the past justified our troubles away so as to enjoy that beer even though our life was crumbling down around us.

Now things are different, your life is good without alcohol, but the justifications yet exist in your mind. I suggest you review why you quit a hundred or so days ago, and hold those reasons up to the light of your present success with quitting. You'll soon understand staying quit is the only real and true journey forward. All other choices just lead back to quitting again if you drink anyways.

It isn't always easy to see how we romanced ourselves with drink, but we did just that nonetheless back in the day, yeah?

Today is a different day for all of us...
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