Well done Champ - xmas and new year ticked off already! What a great start!
Like many others, there are so many similarities with our stories - I lost count of the times I tried to moderate or stop drinking. In the last few years it was a daily event that inevitably failed.
I stopped drinking 2 months ago and experienced exactly the same fears about never having 'fun' again and periods of extreme mood swings, anger and frustration. I found posting here and receiving so much help, support and wisdom in reply to be invaluable. In the very early days I wanted to know that there would be a way through the misery and folk kept saying things like 'just don't drink, keep reading and posting and it will get better.'
Do you know what - they're so right. As FreeOwl so eloquently said - life still happens with all its ups and downs - but they're sober ups and downs and that makes al the difference.
Happy new year to you and yours and with each sober day, the fun will start rolling in for us all
