Start of new life
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Start of new life
Well I went to meet with the outpatient treatment center yesterday. Diagnosis - def an alcoholic! I start Wed and they also want me to go to AA on the nights I'm not at the treatment center.
I'm excited about what a sober life is going to be like, I'm also feeling - how can I have a life without drinking? It's what I've known for almost 30 years. And I damn sure hope this is it. No more going back to the booze - I want this quit to stick.
I'm excited about what a sober life is going to be like, I'm also feeling - how can I have a life without drinking? It's what I've known for almost 30 years. And I damn sure hope this is it. No more going back to the booze - I want this quit to stick.
You can definitely have a life without drinking and it can be so amazing and so fun.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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Welcome aboard...keep coming back! I drank for 40 years and was scared of the change. BUT I needed a 'new way to live'...alcohol robbed me of years of enjoying my children growing up, robbed me of $$$, my right to drive...14 months sober & I am never going back to the drink. Be excited for your new beginning...you'll meet new friends & experience new feelings...Congratz to you!
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Richmond,Va.
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It will be the biggest relief to be with other alcoholics seeking sobriety.You will feel like you've come home at last.The first year will be exciting,a little bit scary,and a joy as you are freed up from thinking about getting a drink constantly.
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I've already had mixed reactions from some friends I've told - Most supportive and a couple were not - only because they liked having someone to always party with -- and to those "friends" see ya. Im hesitant to even say that I'm quitting becasue I've failed alot at it before and I'm sure some will be like yeah, yeah, heard that before..
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Highland Ranch, CO
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New day
Yea for you!!! I know that for me, coming clean and being honest about what I was doing was the start to my recovery...it is a good life this sober thing, not easy but better than druggin and numbing my feelings all day... Everyday...
Good luck...you got this..
Good luck...you got this..
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Welcome! That exact thought went thru my mind yesterday, "how can I live a life without drinking?" Guess we will have to be strong and see...from what everyone says on the other side, its great! Glad you are here!
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Originally Posted by brdlvr 
- how can I have a life without drinking? It's what I've known for almost 30 years. And I damn sure hope this is it. No more going back to the booze - I want this quit to stick.
The longer I am sober the more I realize that "I" don't manage my sobriety directly. What I do is manage the principles I practice in all my affairs and my life somehow gets managed for me in a non-assertive way.
If you don't like the 12 Step description of "How It Works", try looking up "Wu Wei" of Taoism. It works more or less the same way.
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