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2 years
I it has been 2 years on nov 5 since I last had a drink. I have been contemplating how my life has changed. NO BLACKOUTS. still some embarrassing things, but thats because I am who I am. open mouth insert foot. I went back and read some of my early posts. Im amazed at the difference in my physical and mental well being and am finally getting help on the emotional side. I firmly believe there is no such thing as a highly functioning alcoholic.,compared to what that same person would be sober. relationship with kids and wife is way better, used to come home, belt back a couple of shots then say hi to the family then drink the rest of the night, what a way to live. life isn't peaches and cream but it is good. I was thinking about my first drink of good whiskey at 25 and how I never had a week sober (I couldn't just drink even then to buzzed I had to be slurring drunk to be happy from that day forward) besides when my appendix ruptured, I was sober for a month there. I drank for 12 years the last 7 with barely a day here and there without passing out drunk. Im blessed to be alive, blessed to have never got a dui, and blessed my wife didn't leave me.
I hope that others that are struggling can get sober and see the blessings that a sober life brings. yes you feel pain, yes the abuse of childhood is still there, and the embarrassment and pain of the things done drunk, but you have a chance to change it for you andfor someone else.
I hope that others that are struggling can get sober and see the blessings that a sober life brings. yes you feel pain, yes the abuse of childhood is still there, and the embarrassment and pain of the things done drunk, but you have a chance to change it for you andfor someone else.
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Cruiser - that's wonderful news - 2 years sober! Thank you for the update & a positive post. It does nothing for us, even though we think it's helping to calm us down & ease the pain.
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Originally Posted by cruiser1911 
I drank for 12 years the last 7 with barely a day here and there without passing out drunk. Im blessed to be alive, blessed to have never got a dui, and blessed my wife didn't leave me.
I hope that others that are struggling can get sober and see the blessings that a sober life brings. yes you feel pain, yes the abuse of childhood is still there, and the embarrassment and pain of the things done drunk, but you have a chance to change it for you andfor someone else.
I hope that others that are struggling can get sober and see the blessings that a sober life brings. yes you feel pain, yes the abuse of childhood is still there, and the embarrassment and pain of the things done drunk, but you have a chance to change it for you andfor someone else.
Our experiences are remarkably similar, I'm between 2 and 3 years sober after 12-13 years of crazy drinking. And while I'm very blessed to both be alive and never get a dui, the big difference is that my wife of 20 years did leave me somewhere in there haha. Wasn't funny to me at the time of course! But that's another story.
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