Since I quit drinking, I don't miss....
The road goes on forever
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Since I quit drinking, I don't miss....
Glad I don't have to deal with things like this anymore...
Like going someplace where there is no alcohol and scheming how I would be able to drink... Like hiding the little airplane booze bottles in my sock and pouring them into a coke. Then the need to leave early.... when I ran out.
So glad and grateful today. Happy Sunday!
How about you all? What don't you miss?
Like going someplace where there is no alcohol and scheming how I would be able to drink... Like hiding the little airplane booze bottles in my sock and pouring them into a coke. Then the need to leave early.... when I ran out.
So glad and grateful today. Happy Sunday!
How about you all? What don't you miss?
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Going to my van at work for slugs of vodka cooler. Using a ton of hand sanitizer and smoking to cover it up.
Going on photo shoots and making sure I had enough booze hidden around so I wouldn't go into withdrawals during them.
Retching when I brushed my teeth.
And yep always scheming about how to get my drinks when I was someplace with no booze. Luckily (haha) for me I had a drinking enabler so he was easy to convince.
Trying to hide booze everywhere in the van driving a 14 hour drive to get to our family reunion and trying to figure out how to get at it so I wouldn't go into withdrawals.
Empties, empties, everywhere.... lived in 2 different 3000 or so square foot houses. There's a helluvalot of places you can forget where you hid your empties. The first was a rental home and there was too many to clean up when we moved out. So we left them all there. (All MINE)
Add on a farm with five outbuildings. A year long gold mine for bottle return.
Planning every waking moment around drinking.
Yep. Great is sober.
Going on photo shoots and making sure I had enough booze hidden around so I wouldn't go into withdrawals during them.
Retching when I brushed my teeth.
And yep always scheming about how to get my drinks when I was someplace with no booze. Luckily (haha) for me I had a drinking enabler so he was easy to convince.
Trying to hide booze everywhere in the van driving a 14 hour drive to get to our family reunion and trying to figure out how to get at it so I wouldn't go into withdrawals.
Empties, empties, everywhere.... lived in 2 different 3000 or so square foot houses. There's a helluvalot of places you can forget where you hid your empties. The first was a rental home and there was too many to clean up when we moved out. So we left them all there. (All MINE)
Add on a farm with five outbuildings. A year long gold mine for bottle return.
Planning every waking moment around drinking.
Yep. Great is sober.
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Del, totally with you on retching when trying to brush teeth and the empties - just cleared the last of mine this week - I think! May still find some I've hidden somewhere.
Also don't miss that low grade fog of each day
and letting down friends who I'd agreed to meet,
and always feeling behind
and not wanting the phone to ring after a certain time, because you don't want people to hear you are drunk.
Also don't miss that low grade fog of each day
and letting down friends who I'd agreed to meet,
and always feeling behind
and not wanting the phone to ring after a certain time, because you don't want people to hear you are drunk.
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It would take a long post to list all of them. To sum it up simply: I can't think of anything I do miss about my alcoholic drinking life. But to mention probably the most significant ones: I don't miss feeling crap all the time both physically and mentally, lack of productivity, isolation.
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There is one thing I miss about drinking, but it's so ridiculous that I can't believe I miss it. When I think about it now, I reframe it happening sober and enjoying it anyways. It's always a fleeting wistful memory... but it's unsettling nonetheless.
The good thing is, I can redirect and overcome it pretty quickly.
If you're wondering what it was... I would from time to time, when I had extra money, disappear from the world, stay in a hotel by myself, drink my face off, eat tons of food, gamble in the bar, stay up watching cable tv until I passed out drunk. Wake up when housekeeping knocked on the door usually.
It's still fun sober and with the family. Especially when there is a pool.
The good thing is, I can redirect and overcome it pretty quickly.
If you're wondering what it was... I would from time to time, when I had extra money, disappear from the world, stay in a hotel by myself, drink my face off, eat tons of food, gamble in the bar, stay up watching cable tv until I passed out drunk. Wake up when housekeeping knocked on the door usually.
It's still fun sober and with the family. Especially when there is a pool.
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A thing.
I don't miss a moment, a date, a day at work, a laugh, a chance to take a good picture, a good nap, a legit cry, a difficult discussion, a....
Every single thing on the planet is better sober.
I don't miss a moment, a date, a day at work, a laugh, a chance to take a good picture, a good nap, a legit cry, a difficult discussion, a....
Every single thing on the planet is better sober.
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I don't miss the feelings of constant shame, hopelessness, and self-loathing that would constantly overwhelm me.
I don't miss waking up and desperately searching for the empty bottle that I had hidden in my drunken stupor the night before, or the desperate lies I would create if my wife found it first.
I don't miss waking up in a panic to make sure I hadn't urinated while passed out (God that one is embarrassing and still makes me ashamed while writing it out) and desperately trying to clean it and hide the evidence of it if I had.
I don't miss looking in the mirror at the stretch marks from the massive weight gain that came with the calories from drinking and the crappy decisions that I would make with food while drunk.
I don't miss checking my phone for embarrassing texts or late-night phone calls that were Ill advised at best, or downright hurtful at worst. I also don't miss trying to frame an apology for something I had no recollection of the next day.
I don't miss being a poor excuse for a husband and seeing how my drinking, and my outright denial that I was drinking in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, made my wife check-out from the relationship.
I really could sum it up by saying I don't miss anything about my drinking, but when I write out the list it just helps me to reaffirm the decision I made to quit drinking. It would be insane for me to drink again knowing how my life has changed over the past (almost) two years. I could write out a list of positive things that have happened since I quit, but that list wold take me much longer to put into print
I don't miss waking up and desperately searching for the empty bottle that I had hidden in my drunken stupor the night before, or the desperate lies I would create if my wife found it first.
I don't miss waking up in a panic to make sure I hadn't urinated while passed out (God that one is embarrassing and still makes me ashamed while writing it out) and desperately trying to clean it and hide the evidence of it if I had.
I don't miss looking in the mirror at the stretch marks from the massive weight gain that came with the calories from drinking and the crappy decisions that I would make with food while drunk.
I don't miss checking my phone for embarrassing texts or late-night phone calls that were Ill advised at best, or downright hurtful at worst. I also don't miss trying to frame an apology for something I had no recollection of the next day.
I don't miss being a poor excuse for a husband and seeing how my drinking, and my outright denial that I was drinking in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, made my wife check-out from the relationship.
I really could sum it up by saying I don't miss anything about my drinking, but when I write out the list it just helps me to reaffirm the decision I made to quit drinking. It would be insane for me to drink again knowing how my life has changed over the past (almost) two years. I could write out a list of positive things that have happened since I quit, but that list wold take me much longer to put into print
The road goes on forever
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Originally Posted by NestWasEmpty 
Not having to think up new "reasons" why I didn't show up at sober - non alcohol gatherings with friends & family . Because the alcohol was more important 
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