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Join Date: Sep 2013
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New here help
Help with the forum via I phone app,
Help with finding meetings
Help with making me change
This has been a long time coming, I may be too late, but my marriage and kids depend on it.
I'm nearly 40 years old but I feel like a teenager when it comes to controlling my behavior
Help with finding meetings
Help with making me change
This has been a long time coming, I may be too late, but my marriage and kids depend on it.
I'm nearly 40 years old but I feel like a teenager when it comes to controlling my behavior
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Location: MD
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Location: KC MO
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Welcome to SR.
It's never too late. They say the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
I don't think anyone ever woke up and exclaimed."Man I'm glad I'm hungover this morning" But we forget so quickly. The problem is our remberer's are broken. But our forgeters work very well.
Fred
It's never too late. They say the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
I don't think anyone ever woke up and exclaimed."Man I'm glad I'm hungover this morning" But we forget so quickly. The problem is our remberer's are broken. But our forgeters work very well.
Fred
Sober since March 21, 2013
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 262
Welcome Barbasol.
What questions do you have about the SR iPhone app?
I got it off of iTunes for 99 cents and keep SoberRecovery with me all day. I've only posted a few times from my phone, but everything seems to work OK.
As for feeling like a teenager at 40, I realized a long time ago that growing up is only an illusion.
I recently turned 60. I see people much older and much younger than me making bad decisions every day.
I decided if I had not grown up by now I did not have to. But I can control my decisions, and not drinking is one of the best choices I have made.
Good Luck with your sobriety.
What questions do you have about the SR iPhone app?
I got it off of iTunes for 99 cents and keep SoberRecovery with me all day. I've only posted a few times from my phone, but everything seems to work OK.
As for feeling like a teenager at 40, I realized a long time ago that growing up is only an illusion.
I recently turned 60. I see people much older and much younger than me making bad decisions every day.
I decided if I had not grown up by now I did not have to. But I can control my decisions, and not drinking is one of the best choices I have made.
Good Luck with your sobriety.
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Welcome Barbasol. It's so good to have you join us. I think you'll find the encouragement you're looking for.
I was older than you when I finally realized it was destroying me. It's never too late to get free of it and have a new life. You can do it.
I was older than you when I finally realized it was destroying me. It's never too late to get free of it and have a new life. You can do it.
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Missouri
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I quit drinking right before my 38th birthday. It was the best decision I've ever made! I sometimes feel like I'm behind where I should be for my age - almost as if time stood still and my maturity halted while I was in the midst of my addiction. But I am catching up now and I definitely don't feel like it was too late. Forty is still pretty young when you think about it. Especially if you stop now! You'll live so much longer and you'll feel so much better. Good luck! xoxo
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I made this thread and quickly never followed up. I have a friend if a cousin that is wants to go to a meeting with me so I think I have at least some support.
Thank you all for replying. I made this thread, and still sit here scared. I came to the point to reach out to a few different resources, I know I need the help, why is it so hard to pull the trigger and just commit?
I ham now at 4 days without a drink and a few longer without getting drunk. But I also know that 99% of the time, 1 drink leads to 15 and the cycle starts.
I am rambling,
Thank you all for replying. I made this thread, and still sit here scared. I came to the point to reach out to a few different resources, I know I need the help, why is it so hard to pull the trigger and just commit?
I ham now at 4 days without a drink and a few longer without getting drunk. But I also know that 99% of the time, 1 drink leads to 15 and the cycle starts.
I am rambling,
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Originally Posted by Barbasol 
Help with the forum via I phone app,
Help with finding meetings
Help with making me change
This has been a long time coming, I may be too late, but my marriage and kids depend on it.
I'm nearly 40 years old but I feel like a teenager when it comes to controlling my behavior
Help with finding meetings
Help with making me change
This has been a long time coming, I may be too late, but my marriage and kids depend on it.
I'm nearly 40 years old but I feel like a teenager when it comes to controlling my behavior
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: East Coast USA
Posts: 120,861
Originally Posted by Barbasol
I made this thread and quickly never followed up. I have a friend if a cousin that is wants to go to a meeting with me so I think I have at least some support.
Thank you all for replying. I made this thread, and still sit here scared. I came to the point to reach out to a few different resources, I know I need the help, why is it so hard to pull the trigger and just commit?
I ham now at 4 days without a drink and a few longer without getting drunk. But I also know that 99% of the time, 1 drink leads to 15 and the cycle starts.
I am rambling,
Thank you all for replying. I made this thread, and still sit here scared. I came to the point to reach out to a few different resources, I know I need the help, why is it so hard to pull the trigger and just commit?
I ham now at 4 days without a drink and a few longer without getting drunk. But I also know that 99% of the time, 1 drink leads to 15 and the cycle starts.
I am rambling,
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Originally Posted by Barbasol
Help with the forum via I phone app,
Help with finding meetings
Help with making me change
This has been a long time coming, I may be too late, but my marriage and kids depend on it.
I'm nearly 40 years old but I feel like a teenager when it comes to controlling my behavior
Help with finding meetings
Help with making me change
This has been a long time coming, I may be too late, but my marriage and kids depend on it.
I'm nearly 40 years old but I feel like a teenager when it comes to controlling my behavior
12 Step Program has a very high success rate if you follow what is printed in the Big Book. You will change for the better in no time.
40 is not too late, quite young actually.
When I started drinking, i stopped growing.
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