NYMinute

I signed up today on this forum after reading it for a couple of days.Pretty neat site.
What do you consider your date of sobriety ? The first day you don't drink ?

nandm

Welcome to SR and our alcoholism forum!

NYMinute

Thanks ! Just an observation : There appears to be more females than males on this forum .

flutter

Yes, I consider the date of my sobriety,the first day I was sober (yes, the first day I didn't drink).

CarolD

I've never counted ...you may be correct
Always pleased to have a new member
regardless of gender.

I just replied to another thread of yours sooo
Hello and Welcome again ..

I count my DOS starting with the
first day of not drinking
and I had many others before this one.

It took me awhile to find solid recovery.

NYMinute

Thanks . My gender observation came about because of all the butterfly icons and such.

back2theliving

Hi welcome and congrats on starting a new page in your life w/o alcohol.
I consider my sobriety date the first day I stopped drinking. I am still a newbie to all this
today is #5 for me.

Ananda

When I first got sober I was told it was the day you stopped ... so even thought I drank on April 4th...I stoped, threw out the alchohol went to an AA meeting, and that was my BD.

When I got sober this time (different city) they say it's the first day you didn't drink....so I started from the morning after I decided not to drink anymore.

To me it doesn't really matter....it's just semantics and its really about not drinking now.

When I came to SR I thought some of the women were men and some of the men were women.....it was great, cause what I learned is that it doesn't really matter and that I make allot of faulty assumptions based on what sex a person is and assigning certain charactoristics to men and to women that are totaly inaccurate.

Put your sobriety first and the rest will fall into place

ANGELINA243

Welcome! Glad you are here! For me, my sobriety date is the first day I went without drinking--which is also the same day I walked into a 12 step fellowship and said "Please help me".

least

My sober date is the first day without drinking.

Tazman53

First of all welcome to SR!!!

My DOS I use my first day without a drink, some use the day of thier last drink, not really important and certainely not important enough to amount to anything because in the long run all that really matters is today!!!

On the more ladies then men........... well I will simply say I agree with ananda:
Alcoholism does not care about gender, age, race, social status, lack of religion, or what religion one belongs to, it is truely a none discriminatory KILLER!!!!

Harley3801

My last drink was on March 7, 2001. I counted my sobriety date as March 8, 2001 . . . my first full day without a drink.

Celebration1994

I state June 10th 1994 as my clean and sober date, as I that was the first day I did not drink or drug anything.
Blessings and love~Terry

NYMinute

Way to go Terry !

I had to quit for 6 months back in 1993 because I had accidently cut my wrist
on my outboards propeller trying to get off some guy's fyke net.
I got stitched up and it was healing ok but then got some infection in it.Got a little scared and Dr. said no alcohol with the antibiotic.
I should have stayed sober.

TTOSBT

I have been responding to your other thread but I wanted to respond here cause I had not heard that you stayed sober for 6 months. So that is good as you know that you have done it before and can do it again!
Welcome again!

NYMinute

But it probably will be a bit harder because its that much water under the bridge and back then I was almost stress free , compared to now.

NoelleR

My last alcohol-related arrest was 6/14/86 --- a Sat. night.....bummer...that makes for a very long weekend.....

After thinking about it for a few days, I called AA on Wed., 6/18/86, and was told there was a women's meeting the following Mon. eve. On Thurs., 6/19/86, after a long, hard days work, I popped open a beer, but after a few sips (sic), more like gulps, I decided that I really didn't want any more...and I did not drink again......

Now, do I use that Fri., 6/20/86, as my DOS, as it was my first day without drinking? Actually.....no. The date I use is Mon., 6/23/86, the day I made the decision to not drink any more and to work some kind of pgm., stood up, walked up, and received my 'desire' chip, [yes, I'm one of those who used, and still uses, that 'never' phrase (I'll never drink/use again); I see no difference between that and the phrase many use -- no matter what, I won't pick up -- to me they're saying the same thing].

So I guess one could say that my DOS is the date I first set foot on this road of happy destiny...... (o:


NoelleR

NYMinute

I last had beer last night , 9/20/08.The funny part was I was really jittery up to the first 3-4 beers.Never had that before.
If I'm successful my DOS will be today , the last day of Summer ! Autumn is a depressing time of year for me , thinking about the coming Winter and such.

NthTimeAround

I love this time of year with the fall colors coming on. I can't wait to sit in my nice warm ice shanty and catch more because I'm sober. Get off the concrete and into the woods.

NYMinute

They ice fish in Indiana ? What do you catch ?