I’ve been sober almost 3 years. Lately the drink has looked better and tastier and more fun than ever. Then I come on here. I read and I remember. Oh my God it’s not fun. Oh yeah! Right!? Actually drinking sucks. It kills the quality of my life, hurts my sleep,my health, my pride, my relationships ect. Anything that I’m trying to escape will just return with shittier results. I read these posts about the ones struggling on their first days weeks months. Those were hard times with much pain ....and to all of you it only gets better. Life still has its many challenges, problems, joys and sadness but things are much clearer at least. We learn to cope and adapt in healthier ways. Just my thoughts.

Thanks for this post!

I was 18 months sober and completely turned my life around, I’m now a few days sober after continual relapsing for 18 months and ending up exactly where I started, destroyed almost everything.

the main reason I took that first drink 18 months ago? Is because I stopped reminding myself where I had been, I stopped attending AA, stopped reading and posting on here (I used to write with a different name)

i stopped those things that took a few hours every few days and got complacent. Then replaced them eventually with drinking which takes many more hours and money and helps neither me nor anyone else.

sober yay