Would the sober you hang out with the drunk you?
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Depends I guess. I am a pretty fun drunk, happy, likable, life of the party, I guess you could say. I don't get "sloppy" drunk, even when i black out. At least with friends and stuff.
At home it is different. I get mean, argumentative, and irritable sometimes. Say things I shouldn't, or that I do not mean. I try to keep it in control for my kids, but sometimes they have to deal with my rants and stuff. Makes me feel pretty ******.
I guess I wouldn't want to date me or have to live with me. But I guess I would have to say that I would be my friend.
At home it is different. I get mean, argumentative, and irritable sometimes. Say things I shouldn't, or that I do not mean. I try to keep it in control for my kids, but sometimes they have to deal with my rants and stuff. Makes me feel pretty ******.
I guess I wouldn't want to date me or have to live with me. But I guess I would have to say that I would be my friend.
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Join Date: May 2013
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The drunk me pushed all his friends, family and girlfriend away in favor of the bottle until he was all alone.
I wouldn't have even gotten the chance to be friends with the drunk me.
I wouldn't have even gotten the chance to be friends with the drunk me.
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Join Date: Dec 2012
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Definitely a good question.
I was at a wake with my wife recently and she pointed out one of the her cousins husbands who was very drunk, being loud and talking sh*t, slurring his words and trying to dance. It was embarrassing watching him. My wife pointed him out and said, "that used to be you".
Not much I could say to that.
I was at a wake with my wife recently and she pointed out one of the her cousins husbands who was very drunk, being loud and talking sh*t, slurring his words and trying to dance. It was embarrassing watching him. My wife pointed him out and said, "that used to be you".
Not much I could say to that.
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Join Date: Aug 2012
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I hope I'd have compassion for that girl I was but I don't think I'd be able to spend much time in her company. All that crazy hyperactivity and deep unhappiness would be hard to handle for any length of time.
Actually, feck that, I do have compassion and love for my drunken self. I was doing the best I could at the time and I was very lucky to get sober.
Actually, feck that, I do have compassion and love for my drunken self. I was doing the best I could at the time and I was very lucky to get sober.
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I really enjoyed reading the posts! What a great way to step outside of yourself for a minute and really take a look at who you were. It was pretty insightful to do that.
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Ok well hmm this question hit me a little weirdly, cause in a way drunk me was trying to hang out with sober me.
Apparently drunk me thought himself to become a veritable font of epiphanies in the wee hours. To showcase his brilliance he would email various thoughts and diatribes on a multitude of subjects to sober me,I suppose as a safe keeping for posterity's sake?
Some are very hard to decipher, drunk me tended to ramble tangentially and was a rather poor typer, I will grant him the fact it was mostly rather late , dark, and he may even have been wearing gloves(he spent alot of time in the garage) oh and he was really drunk, but apparetnly he wanted to be heard
Apparently drunk me thought himself to become a veritable font of epiphanies in the wee hours. To showcase his brilliance he would email various thoughts and diatribes on a multitude of subjects to sober me,I suppose as a safe keeping for posterity's sake?
Some are very hard to decipher, drunk me tended to ramble tangentially and was a rather poor typer, I will grant him the fact it was mostly rather late , dark, and he may even have been wearing gloves(he spent alot of time in the garage) oh and he was really drunk, but apparetnly he wanted to be heard
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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Drunk me didn't hang out with anybody unless they were drinking and preferably buying. So she wouldn't give me the time of day. Would sober me want to hang out with her? It would be way too sad. No thanks.
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I might want to ask my husband that question. He had the enviable position to be the sober 'friend' for 7 years in our relationship...while I continued on my daily drunken binge. I would NOT have wanted to hang with me. Bobbi
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