Originally Posted by
saoutchik 
When you live alone like I do it can be tough sometimes knowing that you could pick up a drink any time and no one would really care which can be depressing if you dwell on it. On the plus side I have seen quite a lot of examples on SR where SO's seem to make getting sober even harder
I'm 55 and don't want to spend the rest of my life on my own, that might still happen even if I satay sober but it is a certainty if I start drinking again.
Someone contacted me about buying my old Lancia "as is" but the money he offered way short of what I have already spent let alone all the hours of work I have put in, so no chance of me doing that, i'm in for the long haul. It's good to know that someone is interested though
Sao.... I can so connect with this post. I can do the same. Often think no one will care until I have to be at work. But I know people here care. I care very much if you seriously consider going back. I would do all I could to make that not happen.
But you are correct. Once we see the balance in life between what drinking does and doesn't do then we have something to work with. It's easy to read posts and see the choice of words that we all know they have not quite got there yet.
Ken