Gottalife

I can choose whether or not to drink and I can stop anytime I like

letustrythis123

I don't know if we can link articles, but getting back to my mention of Russians and Vodka, today a new study showed that many die at 55.

mick3580

That it was okay to spend money my parents gave me to live and lie to them about it, continuously dishonestly wasting their money on things to give myself immediate gratification. I told this lie to myself while sober too.

Aellyce

That I knew more and more deeply about life than most other people around me.

Goose1

Here's my most funny lie; that someday I would be a Professional Baseball or Basketball Player. Even though I am 5'4" and 140 lbs at the time. My biggest would be telling my wife time and time again after she would call, that I'm just going to have one more and then I will be home.

GracieLou

All of these....

Many times I said these to myself. Funny thing is I never said them to any one else, well maybe that 12 o'clock somewhere thing, but I think the reason was because I think I knew that I was full of crap!

archenemy

I hid my supply of alcohol in my neighbors bushes in their yard. They realized it was mine and left it hidden there for me to retrieve later.

Owllie11

"Screw it...if drinking wine at night kills me, at least I will die happy." Isn't that a bunch of ridiculous, egotistical denial?

soberhawk

Some things are just not worth knowing

jlschultz

1. I will quit tomorrow
2. I'm not that bad
3. I skipped a day so i must not have a big problem
4. All those empty vodka bottles have just accumulated over a HUGE span of time.
5. It hasn't effected me (an affair, divorce and one smashed rear view mirror has NOTHING to do with drinking!)
6. I deserve it because my life's so complicated
7. I did NOT drink tonight.
8. I can't remember the last time I drank
9. I'm not overreacting because I'm drunk
10. No one can smell it. It's vodka.
11. It hasn't effected my work.
12. A pint of vodka a night isn't that bad.

etc.................................

jlschultz

Oh wait! My personal favorite: I actually work out HARDER if I slowly sip vodka thru my water bottle at the gym.

newme2day

To my hubby: You (and others in my life) drive me to drink.

dizzychainsaw

-I'm just having fun
-I'm not hurting anyone
-It's not that bad
-I need alcohol
- I'm doomed to be this way
-There's no way out

RobbyRobot

A serious lie I told myself time after time in my last years of drinking before I sobered up was: "I'd rather be dead then quit drinking."

matt4x4

I can control it this time.

Nothing Bad will happen.

I can drink normally this time.

I will have just 2 or 3 drinks, 6 maximum.

I will have fun this time.

I will meet the hottest chics at the bar.

I will get laid by picking up women at the bar.

Everyone drinks.

Everyone is having fun att the bar drinking, why not me.

Poor me poor me pour me another drink.

AA is not for me.
AA is for whiners.
AA is a cult.
AA is for losers of life.

I am not an alcoholic.

I can take it or leave it.

I will change my drink to beer or wine rather then vodka.

Drinking is apart of society.

I will not end up back in prison this time.

I will not drive my car drunk and crash into a family going home and killing everyone inside.

I am different.

I deserve a drink because this or that happened, good or bad, or nothing at all.

If you were like me you would drink too.

I drank over nothing. People look at me, I drink. I breath air, I drink.

The list goes on and on to infinitum.

Gal220

I was such a loser and failure at life that my only options were to kill myself or drink myself to death.

yeahgr8

I don't need to go to AA!

matt4x4

Drinking is suicide. Thats a fact. It might not get the job done right away, but in the end, continue to drink = a miserable alcoholic death.

NoelleR

Is this statement......................................... ...:

1) A big lie you told yourself while drinking; or

2) Something you believe to be true today?

If '1' then okey-dokey.

If '2' I guess I'll have to disagree with you; especially in regards to "Thats a fact." That may be your opinion, but it certainly is not a universal fact; it may be suicide for some, but not for all; and not all who continue to drink die a miserable alcoholic death.

What I have written here are also not facts, but they're also not just my opinions; they are, however, from my experience.

(o:
NoelleR

dwtbd

That drinking alcoholically would not necessarily lead to becoming an alcoholic. I knew I drank to get get drunk, I tried to convince myself that I was somehow different and that I could stop or regain control whenever I decided to. The lie was the rationalization that I was different or special. Add to that all the daily lies, excuses, reasons to myself and others. At some point no amount of lying can provide enough cover to ignore the addiction.