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Join Date: Dec 2012
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I'm new
Hello, I am new to this site. Trying to get my head around and how it works.
Just looking for a place to share some off my story and to listen to others. A place that isn't judgemental.
I'm in Australia.
I have been a beer drinker. I drink quickly, quietly. Nearly always alone. I like to go to pubs/bars. I sit by myself. I drink, I read the newspaper.
Then I go home with more beer. I sit in bed and I drink and fall asleep. I wake up in the moring and I put the empty bottles in a bag. I secure them on the back of my bycycle and I ride to work and secretly put them in a bin out the back. An old man come by later and collects them for charity.
I share this house with another person and they do not know that I drink so much.
I don't fall down drunk. I don't vomit. I just know that my body is suffering and I have not amounted to much in my life because of all the drinking I have done.
A big motivating factor for me to get sober is that I have a girlfriend/partner. She has two young children and I don't want to be a **** up for them.
I forget things. I'm trying to be honest and just writing here I think it easier for me, this way.
Today I haven't had a drink just lots of chocolate.
Anyway, this is enough for now. I have made a name and called myself 'Porter' here. Not sure if people use their real names, all the best
Just looking for a place to share some off my story and to listen to others. A place that isn't judgemental.
I'm in Australia.
I have been a beer drinker. I drink quickly, quietly. Nearly always alone. I like to go to pubs/bars. I sit by myself. I drink, I read the newspaper.
Then I go home with more beer. I sit in bed and I drink and fall asleep. I wake up in the moring and I put the empty bottles in a bag. I secure them on the back of my bycycle and I ride to work and secretly put them in a bin out the back. An old man come by later and collects them for charity.
I share this house with another person and they do not know that I drink so much.
I don't fall down drunk. I don't vomit. I just know that my body is suffering and I have not amounted to much in my life because of all the drinking I have done.
A big motivating factor for me to get sober is that I have a girlfriend/partner. She has two young children and I don't want to be a **** up for them.
I forget things. I'm trying to be honest and just writing here I think it easier for me, this way.
Today I haven't had a drink just lots of chocolate.
Anyway, this is enough for now. I have made a name and called myself 'Porter' here. Not sure if people use their real names, all the best
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Midwest
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Welcome Porter, I quit drinking 6 months ago.......sometimes there just isn't enough chocolate 
I'm more interested in food now...a good thing I think.
This site has been very helpful to my recovery. Stick around, read and post.....and don't drink.
I'm more interested in food now...a good thing I think.This site has been very helpful to my recovery. Stick around, read and post.....and don't drink.
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Location: Australia
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Glad you made the thread Porter
For most of my drinking 'career' my story was like yours - I kept it on the downlow - or tried to (I found out later I didn't actually fool anyone but thats another story)
Eventually tho my condition progressed and my mask really slipped...and by that stage I didn't even care.
I think you're wise to some here now and deal with this - I know you'll find a lot of support here
Do you have any kind of sobriety plan at all?
D
For most of my drinking 'career' my story was like yours - I kept it on the downlow - or tried to (I found out later I didn't actually fool anyone but thats another story)
Eventually tho my condition progressed and my mask really slipped...and by that stage I didn't even care.
I think you're wise to some here now and deal with this - I know you'll find a lot of support here
Do you have any kind of sobriety plan at all?
D
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