Dee74

Welcome to SR Bob

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Munembo

I was a member of the website wqd and I was just going back to look at where it all began and what my original post was. It was sad to see that the website was no longer available. If anyone knows how to get a post from the WQD website it would be greatly appreciated.

Stayingsassy

I was too. I was Gardengirl over there. I wish some times that people could see my posts from there! Then they would know I struggled from 2008 to 2016 there....just a bunch of long, meandering, overly flowery garbage AV posts! Although that’s what I post now...minus the AV.

There are some people there who would be so, so, so relieved to see that I finally took care of this nonsense. It wasn’t SR that caused me to quit, although I was so relieved that SR was here when I saw WQD was down in 2017. It was a coincidence that I was done relapsing when I found SR.

thisisme

He died recently. I think his name was Jonas. He touched many with his site that he started to help his friend get sober.
I remember Happy-Suzanne-and the Get Smart guy...funny how you remember the avatars.
I remember my first post ever the night I quit.
The first response was "hang on Andrew, others will come"
They did.

Stayingsassy

Oh no, Jonas died? He was so young. That’s terribly sad: do you know what happened? I just really hope it wasn’t relapse.

Happy and Suzanne I remember, too. And many others; Ronnie, Olive, Jackalope, Beckett....some who I spoke to on the phone, just lovely people. There was a strong rational recovery element to wqd that I think I must have internalized all those years because when I finally did quit, I was still thinking along those lines.

Thanks for updating me, I’m so sorry for his family’s loss.

thisisme

I think his name was Beamerus, he did some kind of backup or something.

Here you go-https://wequitdrinking.typepad.com/

MaximusD

Reviving these old WQD posts. I seem to remember that Jonas had cancer. I also don't think he struggled with addiction. As someone posted earlier he did it for a friend.

Stayingsassy

I do remember him saying,

“I can’t help you quit drinking, but I can help you make your hollandaise sauce come together.”

Stayingsassy

I miss their journal section. I think having your own continuous journal engendered a bigger feeling of accountability. It helped you look for people by name and keep an eye on them. People would visit my journal if I didn’t show up. The journal made me feel guilty if I didn’t post!

Dee74

I wasn't a member of WQD but lots of folks have journal threads here.
Is that different?

You could also do that here with a Blog too?

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Stayingsassy

That’s true, I could launch a campaign for everyone to start journals in the blog section. . I don’t think it would get very far though, you’re right there are several people who have started their own threads.

MaximusD

Dee, can you change my thread "Hello everyone" to "Maximus's Journal" or however you would use that possessive correctly

Dee74

The Journal of Maximus might be a bit wordy

Done

MaximusD

Dee, I meant the thread in the new to recovery forum under this user name MaximusD. this can go back to wqd or whatever it was. Thanks!

Dee74

Once I change the title, there's no way for me to remember what it was before, so hope this is OK.

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MaximusD

It's good thanks!

Kaizen2020

Hey Cuesters ! Just meandered into this thread.

thisisme

"hang on Andrew, the other swill come" from lovestoread
And they did.Happy,Suzanne,Rich and many others....
I will never forget WQD.

My dear Sweet. I hope you see this and see I still think of you and wish you well.

reroute

Hey all, ex Cuester here, 2004 - 2015 or so.

Name was Pemble there.