Originally Posted by
soberFitness 
If it’s equally mentalling exhausting to abstain (people return to meetings and this forum daily for decades) that means alcohol is always going to be on my mind
So I seem to be screwed
Is there no happy answer for me...
At six weeks in I was either thinking about drinking or thinking about
not drinking. It was exhausting.
But at least I wasn't drinking. I keep on. The focus became less on not drinking and more on living and loving the sober life.
Now, with eight years sober, I can say I rarely think about drinking or alcohol.
But I think daily about my recovery, about being sober and the blessings of that.