One Year Back
 

Good morning, today marks one year back since my relapse last year. There have been a few interruptions to my sanity, no interruptions to my sobriety. It's been the best year of my life.

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your success. :)

Good deal Stobert, congrats on a year sober!!!!

How long were you sober before you relapsed? What led to the relapse?

I have just over a year sober without a relapse (So far) and part of the reason I have not relapsed is thanks to people like you who are honest about relapsing sharing the truth.

Well done on 1 year, Stobert!!

Super!!
:cheer

congratulations! 353 days to go and hopefully i'll be saying the same thing ;)

Congrats on your 1 year. I'm coming up soon to a year after my relapse, funny, I've never thought of it as a relapse, well, used that word till now. I know what you mean about the interruptions to the sanity.

Congratulations Stobert,people like you are the inspiration to the rest of us.

Stobert!

Good to see you - and thanks for sharing your good news! Glad you're enjoying sober life!

wow good :bbj: job

Way to go!

great
congrats


best
fraankie

Awesome! Great job.

Super Work.... thank you!

I had two years and 7 months before I took a drink, then went another couple of months, drank again, went on like that until late September 2006 when I drank for a few days straight and fell back into old patterns. It didn't take long before I was lying and paranoid. The worst of it were the terrible pangs of dishonesty, I finally picked up the phone and spilled the truth to my sponsor and a couple of AA friends, went to a meeting and picked up a white chip. The rest is history, got back on track and here I am.

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing.

way to go, Stobert!

Happy Birthday Sto!

Congrats!!! That is a great accomplishment.

Thanks for sharing Stobert, we had a gal came back in last night, it was heart breaking to see her...... she had 16 months sober, she shared that she just quit going to meetings, calling folks in the program, working the steps with her sponsor, she said every day she did not do what she should have been doing was one day closer to a drink, when she broke down and picked up she said she was having a mental battle..... meeting..... drink..... meeting drink? She bought a pint to start with. Went straight into a binge/blackout mode...... totaled her car when she T-bones someone (No one except her was hurt). She was in the hospital for 3 days and then discharged herself against doctors advice and came to a meeting.

She was looking healthy with a climmer in her eye and a smile on her face before she went out..... she looked like hell last night!!! This was all in less then a month!!!

I gave her a big hug after the meeting and my number if she needed a ride to a meeting. I also thanked her for sharing her relapse with the group. She said she had to share it, she loves us and wanted folks to learn from her mistake. I let her know I loved her also and admired her for telling the truth. She said she had to tell the truth or she would never stay sober by lying.

How sweet of you Tazman 53,. thanks for sharing.

Mar13 things like that are what AA is all about:
Trust me, there were a lot of other folks at that meeting doing the same thing I did, we do not shoot our wounded in AA. If someone comes into AA, gets sober and then decides "Hey maybe I am not an alcoholic" and goes out and drinks again, they are welcome back with open arms.

When I picked up my one year chip (actually my original 1 year chip from a couple of years ago) I know there were a few people who were surprised. When I went out and came back I told my sponsor and a few close friends and introduced myself as a newcomer in my first 30 days at my regular Thursday night meeting but never said much more about it. Anyway, last night was really positive, feels good to have that first year under my belt again.

Congrats, Stobert, on your new year of sobriety. Thanks for celebrating and thanks for the story of your relapse; may you and it be an inspiration to us all.

Best to you from the Snowgoose.

That's really nice
in all AA the people are so nice like in yours?

I am not going to lie & say there are not some jerks in AA, there are, but they are few and far between, the vast majority of folks in AA are the most loving caring people I have ever known! They loved me until I was able to learn to love myself!

After a person has been pulled from the bowels of hell back into the light of life with the help of others who were in the same spot at one time one finds them selfs more then happy to help others out of the same hole they were in.

Feel like hell, need a hug, a wink, a smile of understanding, some one to be willing to help you out of a bad spot, some one to make you laugh, a shoulder to cry on? Go to an AA meeting.

Congrats on 1 year, that is awesome!

Thanks so much !
Where can i find near my area i dont know to look
I live in Maryland Baltimore area
thanks

WOW!!!!! I spent several weeks in Baltimore while one of my daughters was in Shepard Pratt being treated for anorexia, I attended a bunch of AA meetings there. There is a group called Agape that meets right on Shepard Pratt that is fantastic!!!

Here is a link to meeting in the Baltimore area http://www.baltimoreaa.org/

Thanks ! thats nice you have been there i know if i go it will be nice , thanks a lot again for everything