What are your best reasons to be sober?
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What are your best reasons to be sober?
Mine are....
1. Remembering conversations shared with someone. Nothing worse having a conversation come back to me from someone and not remembering anything about it. That itself can cause problems in friendships & relationships
2. Driving....
1. Remembering conversations shared with someone. Nothing worse having a conversation come back to me from someone and not remembering anything about it. That itself can cause problems in friendships & relationships
2. Driving....
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1) I have no desire to die- I have been told I probably do not have another recovery in me, I have knocked on deaths door for the last time as a result of this sickness, thankfully I still have perfect health.
2) I love my better half beyond words, she has given me a second chance
3) I love to work, I can't give my best while being sick
4) I love my friends and family, when I drink I cease contact or text things I would never dream of sober - in short I seem to blame everyone else for my sickness rather than take responsibility.
5) I love life, walking my dog, canoeing and hiking with my better half and our dogs, can't do that if I am drinking
6) I want to remember, when I drink I might at best remember what went on by 5% or less yet sober my memory shocks people.
I could probably write a book on the reasons I want to stay sober but those are a few thoughts that come to mind.
2) I love my better half beyond words, she has given me a second chance
3) I love to work, I can't give my best while being sick
4) I love my friends and family, when I drink I cease contact or text things I would never dream of sober - in short I seem to blame everyone else for my sickness rather than take responsibility.
5) I love life, walking my dog, canoeing and hiking with my better half and our dogs, can't do that if I am drinking
6) I want to remember, when I drink I might at best remember what went on by 5% or less yet sober my memory shocks people.
I could probably write a book on the reasons I want to stay sober but those are a few thoughts that come to mind.
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All that time obsessing about alcohol, counting units and bottles, making and breaking moderation promises, waking up dry mouthed hungover with no recollection of what happened, feel dizzy, smelly, anxious, shaky all the time, cutting food to make room for drinking, cutting friendships and letting people down to make space for drinking, trying to be super good and then screwing it all up when I got drunk. The never, ever, ever, ever ending cycle of drinking, feeling sick, recovering and getting drunk again.
Now I have thrown all of that up into the toilet and flushed it. Gone. The relief......
Now I have thrown all of that up into the toilet and flushed it. Gone. The relief......
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To get rid of the awful dependence on poison. To give myself a chance for health and good / better relationships. To stop hiding. To learn how to behave better all round. To get rid of the crushing burden of addiction.
To be a mum my daughter can be proud of.
To be a mum my daughter can be proud of.
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Because I get to feel comfortable sober; because I get to be happy with myself despite my imperfections; because it wore me out all that swinging between loathing everyone and thinking they were stupid and then believing that I was the lowest of the low; I got to be free of resentments and fears that I'd carried with me for years, which was exhausting and made me depressed and anxious; my home is clean and a good place to be; I got to make lots of lovely sober friends; I get to experience the pleasure of helping other people (wouldn't have bothered with that before); because I don't wake up on a regular basis piecing together a jigsaw of events, full of fear; I don't have to tread on eggshells while I figure out if I peed someone off while I was drunk; because I have so much more weekend time now; because I remember to change the bedclothes regularly nowadays (love that fresh-bed sheet feeling); .... so many reasons 
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Health - it took a mild attack of pancreatitis to get me moving. Even then I drank another 3 months before a weird first-date thing happened and I finally questioned my future and took action. Plus triglyceride levels over 700 and blood pressure sitting around 140/110.
At 45 years old with those issues I was clearly getting into the territory where I was facing my own impending mortality if I kept drinking. I'm lucky the things that caught up to me weren't permanently disabling or fatal.
At 45 years old with those issues I was clearly getting into the territory where I was facing my own impending mortality if I kept drinking. I'm lucky the things that caught up to me weren't permanently disabling or fatal.
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