There is hope...
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Join Date: Jul 2013
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There is hope...
Tomorrow will be 7 days for me... I have thrown myself into AA and attended many meetings. I have stayed sober longer than this before but this time its different. I actually committed and am going to meetings that I never thought I would. My eyes are not blurry and I have made major friends in just a few days. Even my boyfriend and the people I made a fool of myself in front of seem to becoming nicer to me. I think they can see I am changing quickly. I still have fear but have hope. I am able to react to my boyfriends anger differently and make better choices in my responses. GO TO AA- IT WORKS. 
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Your thread title reminds me of this quote:
"The chronicity of addiction is really a kind of fatalism writ large. If an addict knows in his heart he is going to use someday, why not today? But if a thin reed of hope appears, the possibility that it will not always be so, things change. You live another day and then get up and do it again. Hope is oxygen to someone who is suffocating on despair."
-- From an excerpt of David Carr's book, The Night of the Gun
"The chronicity of addiction is really a kind of fatalism writ large. If an addict knows in his heart he is going to use someday, why not today? But if a thin reed of hope appears, the possibility that it will not always be so, things change. You live another day and then get up and do it again. Hope is oxygen to someone who is suffocating on despair."
-- From an excerpt of David Carr's book, The Night of the Gun
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Join Date: Jun 2013
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Great news, Shelpy.
AA filled several large voids in my life when I first got sober. Staying active in the program allowed me to live a life that I never imagined. The same thing is available to everyone who recovers from alcoholism.
AA filled several large voids in my life when I first got sober. Staying active in the program allowed me to live a life that I never imagined. The same thing is available to everyone who recovers from alcoholism.
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That's great, Shelpy!
I think you're right on the money to in looking at strong sobriety not as how long you've had it but the quality of it.
Glad to see things are already turning around after a week. Just imagine what three more of those might bring. Plus you'll get a shiny new coin.
I think you're right on the money to in looking at strong sobriety not as how long you've had it but the quality of it.
Glad to see things are already turning around after a week. Just imagine what three more of those might bring. Plus you'll get a shiny new coin.
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