I'm in trouble.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: UK
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Ahhh well. Just because we get sober, doesn't mean we get perfect or that life doesn't keep happening.
Just try to do then next right thing, and put right what you messed up if possible, and if you can't put it right think how to make amends.
Progress not perfection.
Hope things straighten out for ya. BB
Just try to do then next right thing, and put right what you messed up if possible, and if you can't put it right think how to make amends.
Progress not perfection.
Hope things straighten out for ya. BB
Jeff 
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: MN
Posts: 8,704
Originally Posted by thomas11 
Just when I get things straightened out I do something to screw it up. Why? No clue. Leaving now for awhile, be back in 4-5 hours.
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 25,373
I was worried when you left that cryptic message earlier (first post.)
Sounds like you decided to have some drinks.
That's how the whole mess gets going again.
Ask me how I know.
Prayers for your ability to start on sobriety again. Tomorrow.
Sounds like you decided to have some drinks.
That's how the whole mess gets going again.
Ask me how I know.
Prayers for your ability to start on sobriety again. Tomorrow.
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
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Originally Posted by thomas11
So I'm pretty full and I am not sure what to say that this point. Must get back on the train tomorrow. If you want to blast me, go for it.
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: West Bloomfield, MI
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Thomas, it was important for me to learn something about alcohol and alcoholism -
I thought that drinking "made" one alcoholic. In other words, because I drank so much I was an alcoholic.
It took a while to understand my thinking was backwards.
The truth was similar, but opposite: BECAUSE I'm alcoholic, I drink to much / more than I want / when I don't want to.
The solution to the first one is simple - drink less and/or don't drink. For the second, it's a little deeper. The answer is to seek a solution to the alcoholism and, when that's accomplished, the excessive drinking is solved by default.
Maybe you're an alcoholic..........and that's why you continue to "screw it up" once you've stopped for a while?
I thought that drinking "made" one alcoholic. In other words, because I drank so much I was an alcoholic.
It took a while to understand my thinking was backwards.
The truth was similar, but opposite: BECAUSE I'm alcoholic, I drink to much / more than I want / when I don't want to.
The solution to the first one is simple - drink less and/or don't drink. For the second, it's a little deeper. The answer is to seek a solution to the alcoholism and, when that's accomplished, the excessive drinking is solved by default.
Maybe you're an alcoholic..........and that's why you continue to "screw it up" once you've stopped for a while?
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