AB1111

My head has got ahold of me and it's pissing me off! Trying to keep a good attitude. Listening to my coworkers talk about their vacations and good times they are having this summer is driving me crazy! Over it! I still have years of cleaning up my past before I can take my family on vacation. If I wasn't working right now I would be drunk. Ive come to realize that the damage I've caused financially isn't fixable. I waited too long to get serious about getting sober now there seems to be no good reason to stay sober. If you are trying to get sober just do it. Don't make the mistakes I have.

Dee74

Everything is fixable AB - certainly finances are anyway

It took me about a year to get my finances back on track.
Considering I drank for 20 years I thought that was pretty good.

Stay in the day man - you can't fix everything today...just keep plugging away at it...keep moving forward...

you'll get there

D

imaquitter

I feel like I waited too long too but that just gives me more reason to suck it up and quit. I'm already years and years behind where I would be if I never started drinking my life away.

Stick with it and listening to their stories should give you MORE reason to do that also. Good Luck.

koalabear

I'm about to start going through the financial side AB1111 and it scares me. But I know that when I was drinking it didn't go away. I tried drunkeness and it really didn't seem to solve my problems, only delay them and in some cases make them worse.

At least sober I have some chance of sorting it out.

IndaMiricale

Since your here and typing that, you have not waited to long. Many people dont ever get the chance to do it once.

I know I went to no where to live and a back pack with a couple clothes. I still am climbing that mountain to have things , but I slowly am gaining.

Weasel1966

AB.... wow... i hear ya. I hate hearing about vacations, family time, fun things from the people I work with when I need to pay off 10s of thousands of dollars before I am good again.

Its hard to get over that midpoint where I feel I can get somewhere.

I know few things for certain. I cannot be free unless I live through this part of what I did to myself.

Its possible. I am doing it. Other here are doing it.

Unraveling what we did for many years, 10+ for me, takes time.

Hell with the people at work. Focus on you!

Read SR a lot. It will give you a real perspective of where you feel you are at. Some will be better off and some worse... but none are alone in this.

Ken

AB1111

Thanks guys. Fear grabbing hold again because I choose to live in the past and in the future yesterday. Practicing staying in the here and now today and looking for things I'm grateful for. Thanks again. Much love!

Anna

Good, I'm glad your thinking is changing.

There is always hope, and of course there will be dark moments, but you can fix your finances and improve your life for you and your family, as long as you stay sober.