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I want to live...
I am 4 days sober, going cold turkey was ugly and messy but that was the easy bit, now is the hard part to stay sober. I know I can do it because I went to AA for two years,
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Welcome to SR....If AA worked for 2 years...I imagine it would work again. It works for me. I always ask....Did you just stop going to meetings?...Thought it was OK to go out and drink again?
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It started with a few cans at the weekend, and that went to all the time I was awake, I stopped going to AA because of the 12 steps, I was not going to share my bad things I have done to my sponsor, she was ok about it but then said she could not be my sponsor no more. I am going to realy try now, I have just lost my two 12 year old girls because of drink.
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Sharing your step inventory is simply to get it out. As I tell my sponsees, you can con yourself, but it's a lot harder to con someone else. That being said, there's nothing saying you have to do your step 5 with your sponsor. You can use anyone for it, including a priest or minister. You can use a paid councillor too and one of the reasons they're paid, is for their confidentiallity.
It's also important to remember that a step 4 is also not just about our bad things, but our good as well.
In any case, welcome back.
It's also important to remember that a step 4 is also not just about our bad things, but our good as well.
In any case, welcome back.
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Originally Posted by Shelagh 
It started with a few cans at the weekend, and that went to all the time I was awake, I stopped going to AA because of the 12 steps, I was not going to share my bad things I have done to my sponsor, she was ok about it but then said she could not be my sponsor no more. I am going to realy try now, I have just lost my two 12 year old girls because of drink.
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Originally Posted by Shelagh
It started with a few cans at the weekend, and that went to all the time I was awake, I stopped going to AA because of the 12 steps, I was not going to share my bad things I have done to my sponsor, she was ok about it but then said she could not be my sponsor no more. I am going to realy try now, I have just lost my two 12 year old girls because of drink.
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For the first couple of years in AA I viewed the 12 Steps as the penalty I had to pay for being an alcoholic.....
Later I saw them as an opportunity for a new and better way of life.
Same Steps .... different approach and attitude. It became a privilege to work the Steps, not a PITA.
All the best.
Bob R
Later I saw them as an opportunity for a new and better way of life.
Same Steps .... different approach and attitude. It became a privilege to work the Steps, not a PITA.
All the best.
Bob R
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Thank you, I have got the first week over with no drink, I have never seen the house so clean, even my girls are popping in and out, they came round and gave me the biggest hug ever, I love them so much they are my baby girls x
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