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I travel to Vegas regularly for business, sometimes weekly - it's a city that was built on creating, marketing and then pandering to vice. 
But mostly it's for tourists who come there for that exact reason, and there's a lot of Vegas that isn't on the strip or at the casinos, including hundreds of AA meetings at dozens of locations, Las Vegas Central Office for Alcoholics Anonymous As Dee suggests, might help to just pop in to one for a bit of strengthening?
But mostly it's for tourists who come there for that exact reason, and there's a lot of Vegas that isn't on the strip or at the casinos, including hundreds of AA meetings at dozens of locations, Las Vegas Central Office for Alcoholics Anonymous As Dee suggests, might help to just pop in to one for a bit of strengthening?
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Are you there for work? If so put your focus there. I relapsed in Las Vegas in April, and I don't want you to have to endure the same thing. You've come this far, stay strong. You don't need alcohol on this trip.
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Thanks guys. Yes, I'm here for work. I'm safely and soberly in my room for the night. The group I'm here with are all down in the casino. It started on the plane trip here just wanting a drink so bad! At dinner one of the guys kept asking me to order a cocktail, he said.... girl, I know you want your vodka.... he did this in front of everyone. I was so embarrassed. I just smiled and said desert has to be served with coffee! When we left dinner to go to the show I took him aside and told him that I am on medication that doesn't mix with alcohol. He said, oh man! I didn't know! You sure do have willpower! I really don't, I'm pretty miserable right now.
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Originally Posted by JeffreyAK 
You made it though! 
These times can be tough, but every tough situation I went through made me stronger for the next time, so hopefully tomorrow won't be nearly so bad.
These times can be tough, but every tough situation I went through made me stronger for the next time, so hopefully tomorrow won't be nearly so bad.Mr
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Originally Posted by LadyBug66
... I took him aside and told him that I am on medication that doesn't mix with alcohol. He said, oh man! I didn't know! You sure do have willpower! I really don't, I'm pretty miserable right now.
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Originally Posted by theVman31
You certainly have some kind of power to do that !
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I was thinking this lunch time about what i said this morning and when you say ;
" At dinner one of the guys kept asking me to order a cocktail, he said.... girl, I know you want your vodka.... he did this in front of everyone. I was so embarrassed. I just smiled and said desert has to be served with coffee! "
This is the point where we have to accept that our relationship with alcohol is not like everyones and maybe your colleague meant absolutely nothing bad and it was completely harmless... and shouldnt be held against him tomorrrow. I used to dread the people who love egging you on to have a drink.. That was when I realised there was a difference in saying to people "I dont want to" and "I cant" !
Maybe Im just complicated and I think too much
Any ways all that and in the end on work trips now I avoid the restaurants with the colleagues and stay in my hotel. But I feel like I have won an olympic gold a few days later !
" At dinner one of the guys kept asking me to order a cocktail, he said.... girl, I know you want your vodka.... he did this in front of everyone. I was so embarrassed. I just smiled and said desert has to be served with coffee! "
This is the point where we have to accept that our relationship with alcohol is not like everyones and maybe your colleague meant absolutely nothing bad and it was completely harmless... and shouldnt be held against him tomorrrow. I used to dread the people who love egging you on to have a drink.. That was when I realised there was a difference in saying to people "I dont want to" and "I cant" !
Maybe Im just complicated and I think too much
Any ways all that and in the end on work trips now I avoid the restaurants with the colleagues and stay in my hotel. But I feel like I have won an olympic gold a few days later !
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I prefer to say I have decided and chosen not to drink, rather than I can't. It puts the power back on my side. The idea of sitting down, folding my arms and saying I wanna drink but I can't is not a real good predictor of success.
You're doing just fine, LadyBug. Remember that this is a choice you have made, one that simply makes sense given the circumstances and history. Nothing wrong with your thinking at all. Stay the course, and know that you are doing a brave and difficult thing, and it is something you can be proud of.
Well done.
You're doing just fine, LadyBug. Remember that this is a choice you have made, one that simply makes sense given the circumstances and history. Nothing wrong with your thinking at all. Stay the course, and know that you are doing a brave and difficult thing, and it is something you can be proud of.
Well done.
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Thank you all ...
... for holding my hand last night. I do pretty well with cravings in most surroundings. Yesterday was overwhelming to me. Alcohol is EVERYWHERE here. Have a great day and again thanks for talking me off the ledge.
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