Getting back on track
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Join Date: Sep 2018
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Getting back on track
Hi everyone. I'm new to this site and am looking forward to getting sober again! After struggling with alcohol and cocaine for nearly twenty years I finally got clean and sober in 2012. A month later I got pregnant with my wonderful son. Pregancy and nursing helped keep me on track for three years but in 2016 I began drinking again. I was able to drink with moderation and never had more than the odd glass of two. Over the past 6-9 months though I have slowly started drinking more. Waking up this morning with a hangover made me realize I am heading down a path that will lead nowhere good. My son has a cold and went to bed early and for that I am grateful, right here and now I swear he will never see me drunk!
Thank you all for being here!
Thank you all for being here!
I hope our support and advice can help you get sober for good. 
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Soberville, USA
Posts: 4,174
Puppy,
I never made 3 years totally sober, but you demonstrated that this thing will be in our head forever.
Folks regret relapse after decades of sobriety.
The calling of the addiction is not strong as the days count up, but it is persistent.
Not constant, just present.
Sr, aa, na, therapy etc etc...can help me to keep the reasons I quit fresh.
I know folks here with decades of sobriety, I believe most attend aa.
Having a room full of like minded folks is great. Saving folks lives or seeing them slowly die is good for staying quit as well.
Not sure that many ex addicts can fully maintain full abstinence, without some sort of periodic, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly reminder of what relapse will do.
The bottom line is...stay off my poison...by any means needed.
The wife is fighting a nasty cold. I know that if I was drinking...I would be right there with her. She sneaks a drink here and there w her friends. I believe that is all it takes to sap the immune system enough to catch a cold.
No way. Don't need booze any more.
Thanks.
I never made 3 years totally sober, but you demonstrated that this thing will be in our head forever.
Folks regret relapse after decades of sobriety.
The calling of the addiction is not strong as the days count up, but it is persistent.
Not constant, just present.
Sr, aa, na, therapy etc etc...can help me to keep the reasons I quit fresh.
I know folks here with decades of sobriety, I believe most attend aa.
Having a room full of like minded folks is great. Saving folks lives or seeing them slowly die is good for staying quit as well.
Not sure that many ex addicts can fully maintain full abstinence, without some sort of periodic, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly reminder of what relapse will do.
The bottom line is...stay off my poison...by any means needed.
The wife is fighting a nasty cold. I know that if I was drinking...I would be right there with her. She sneaks a drink here and there w her friends. I believe that is all it takes to sap the immune system enough to catch a cold.
No way. Don't need booze any more.
Thanks.
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