Hello, back after a LONG absence
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Hello, back after a LONG absence
Hello All- my last visit to this site was 8/12/09... I had finally achieved some lasting sobriety in June of 2010 that lasted just shy of 9 months. (hey, it was lasting by my prior standards! It took me 10 months before I was able to string together my first 30 continuous days of sobriety.
) After I relapsed this past February and drank two bottles of wine one night, I got right back on the wagon but I have had 3 other brief lapses, longest one lasting 7 days. Shortest was last night, with just one normal sized bottle of wine. Since my last time here I have become involved in AA which I love, but I am hoping being back on this site will give me the additional support I apparently need during my evenings home alone.
I am glad to be back here and very glad to be sober tonight!
Love to all-
SD
) After I relapsed this past February and drank two bottles of wine one night, I got right back on the wagon but I have had 3 other brief lapses, longest one lasting 7 days. Shortest was last night, with just one normal sized bottle of wine. Since my last time here I have become involved in AA which I love, but I am hoping being back on this site will give me the additional support I apparently need during my evenings home alone. I am glad to be back here and very glad to be sober tonight!
Love to all-
SD
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Thanks for coming back. I'm really glad you did. I am so thankful for this site and the wonderful people here who do so much to help so many people, people they'll never even meet. Even when I'm not here, this site helps me. I think of the people here who give so much of themselves, and it gives me that extra little motivation to resist temptation.
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Your post has taught me something and i really appreciate you sharing. No amount of sober time cures us. No amount makes us invincible against this thing. Im glad you are back. Glad you are sober! I hope you continue to share and post. My best!
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You sharing your experience helps me realize how important it is to stay in the program and utilize the steps in my every day life. Like Dee said, hope this time is your time. Keep strong and practice what you are learning in the program, it works. Love out to you xoxoxo
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Glad to see you here! Ive been on the sober wagon for 2 weeks now, and riding shotgun! Shotgun is the only seat to sit in I say! Why? Because you can look ahead and just over those hills is a green pasture filled with mental clarity. Theres still lot of empty seats up here in the front man, so join me - Its a hell of a view 
But I have to ask. What's a "Normal sized bottle of wine?" I laughed when I read that. I think its relative to the person. My normal sized bottle of wine wasnt even a bottle at all. My normal sized bottle of wine was more shaped in a square format lol.
Keep strong!
-Ryan
But I have to ask. What's a "Normal sized bottle of wine?" I laughed when I read that. I think its relative to the person. My normal sized bottle of wine wasnt even a bottle at all. My normal sized bottle of wine was more shaped in a square format lol.
Keep strong!
-Ryan
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Thanks for all the warm welcomes!
Seth, no, I didn't think I could handle drinking again- I was pretty sure it would spin out of control quickly. Thankfully I got back to the program quickly. I drank because I looked at my life with almost 9 months sobriety and realized that the major issues that contributed to my drinking were still in my life ... so I thought why not drink. Now I realize all my quirks don't suddenly disappear when I stop drinking... I am still me...(what is that saying? where-ever I go, there I am) which is why, for me, working the steps is so important. I need that total psychic change.
I know I want sobriety, which is why it is always so surprising when I find myself relapsing.
But today I am sober...
Ryan- I consider 'normal' a 750ml bottle. Unfortunately for me, my standard was 1-2 of the 1.5l bottles.
Hope everyone has a great day!
SD
Seth, no, I didn't think I could handle drinking again- I was pretty sure it would spin out of control quickly. Thankfully I got back to the program quickly. I drank because I looked at my life with almost 9 months sobriety and realized that the major issues that contributed to my drinking were still in my life ... so I thought why not drink. Now I realize all my quirks don't suddenly disappear when I stop drinking... I am still me...(what is that saying? where-ever I go, there I am) which is why, for me, working the steps is so important. I need that total psychic change.
I know I want sobriety, which is why it is always so surprising when I find myself relapsing.
But today I am sober...
Ryan- I consider 'normal' a 750ml bottle. Unfortunately for me, my standard was 1-2 of the 1.5l bottles.
Hope everyone has a great day!
SD
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Glad you came back to the forum. It was interesting reading your post that you thought you might as well drink because nothing had changed. I relapsed after a few years of sobriety because everything HAD changed, and I thought "well, maybe now I can drink differently, too!" I guess this thing will get us any way it can....up, down, or sideways! 
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Shortest was last night, with just one normal sized bottle of wine.
This cracked me up too. My normal nightly bottle of wine was a half gallon jug of Carlo Rossi Sangria..After all..it was only a bottle! I know someone who is not an alcoholic because all he drinks is beer. A CASE A DAY! Anyway..glad you broke out of the cycle and joined us again! Good to hear from you..Wishing you the best.
This cracked me up too. My normal nightly bottle of wine was a half gallon jug of Carlo Rossi Sangria..After all..it was only a bottle!
I know someone who is not an alcoholic because all he drinks is beer. A CASE A DAY! Anyway..glad you broke out of the cycle and joined us again! Good to hear from you..Wishing you the best.
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