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Old 05-28-2014, 10:15 AM
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Astolfo
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One more thought: in retrospect, I guess I was waiting for things to become unbearable – thinking that as long as there had been no DUIs, no getting fired from a job for drinking, no physical violence – things must be OK. Almost as if I needed some sort of dramatic incident, spectacular proof, some massive announcement complete with orchestral accompaniment, that NOW things are really bad and so it’s OK to freak out.
But no massive dramatic incident or announcement ever came; instead the three little realisations added up to a lightbulb moment of understanding that if he kept going down this road (and he seemed determined to do so), things could only get worse. By then I had found the Sober Recovery site, started reading other people’s stories, and found many of them already resonated for me; they also offered terrifying previews of what I was likely headed for if I didn’t make a change.
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