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Thank you
I sincerely would like to thank you for having this site! It has been a month since I have stopped drinking. I have gone through drinking phases, not drinking during the week, then pissing off my husband because I did, then slowing down, then just wanting to drink to shut down the battle that goes on in my head. Therapy is helping. For the first two weeks I thought I was going crazy, and considered checking into a mental hospital. I mean it was only that I stopped DRINKING! I wasn't raped (again) I was not in a bad relationship (just unhappy) and was given three choices by my husband, August 10th either you let me control you when you can drink and how much you can drink, quit drinking all together, or leave. We have tried the control thing, I am not very good with being controlled by anyone. I don't want to leave I love him and couldn't imagine not being with him....only one option left...like I said, after two weeks of anaxiety, panic attacks and anger, not being able to shut my head down...I actually considered leaving...and not just the house, my life...for real this is what happened on a Saturday morning in August....crying I did a random search for anixiety and stopping drinking, a post from 2007 came up. Readable only, as I read, I saw I was not going crazy, I was not alone. And it saved my life that day. The PAW link has become my reading of choice. Beyond the influence, has been purchased but I have not started it yet. But that alone as I read to my husband what my body was going through, he to stoped trying to fix me, as well as or therapist😉 who has been seeing us separately and together for 2 years....thank you all for the advice, and being here. Xoxo
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One month is amazing...congratulations!!! Hopefully, you came for your husband and will stay for sobriety. 
I'm like you, I hate being controlled, so anything my husband "demands" is likely to make me do the opposite. It sounds like you are really committed. Great job.
I'm like you, I hate being controlled, so anything my husband "demands" is likely to make me do the opposite. It sounds like you are really committed. Great job.
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