Old 01-22-2020, 07:32 PM
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LastInLine
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I think all of us want to be sober and don't want to be sober at the same time, at least early on, and that's how we wound up here.

At 17 days, I wanted to be sober and not to be what seems to be dozens of times since I quit. I typically want to be sober when I wake up feeling like a human being after a decent night of sleep. But then come 5-6 PM, drinking time, I want to not be sober because being sober is not always pleasant to some degree and in some way.

Maybe pick one thing that you hate the most about drinking and keep that in mind. For me it has been lack of sleep. Every time I think 'well, just a couple of beers will fix this empty boring feeling' and then I think of how I'm going to wake up again tomorrow morning feeling like crap because I didn't sleep well, again, and waking up all night either to run to the bathroom to pee or getting something to drink because I'm dying of thirst.

That seems to be working for me, so far.
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