Don't worry Fizzy, I can't get to Yorkshire either! Purdy's sounds like Red Bull - that's my vitamin drink!

I'm going to be ill - sausages in lard!! I bet in Scotland, they would deep fry that lard and serve it on the side. :lmao Just laughing at my own wit!!

Guessing its in Castleford ?

Did a routeplanner, its only 312 miles from where I am in Scotland then, 5 hours 35 mins the AA say it should take me.

Bit dodgy getting back for the kids then, shame, the Turkish delight was nearly swinging it for me there.

Straight up Lostbug, the wee chippy near me actually has a menu that has

Deep Fried Mars Bar
Deep Fried Bounty
Deep Fried Twix

all available for a quid.

Even when drunk though I've stayed with the chips and curry !!!!!

We have deep fried mars bars at our chippy, too! See, don't anyone say the Scots haven't done anything for us!

Haven't had the pleasure of a deep fried Mars bar, would if I was in the mood tho.
Deep fried haggis was however a revelation...Yum!

Do you think that maybe the Scots are trying to get back at the English by introducing us to cuisine that is hazardous to our health?

Wow, such bad cravings today. Came so close to slipping.... so close

Made it home though, sober and didn't buy anything on way home.

Wow! Do you guys plan routes at meetings?

Good stuff, day 5 for me too, Wibble.
I've made myself a bit queasy with Energy drinks and strong chocalate. Better than the alternative though.
Got loads of sugar speeded housework done. Bonus.

I'll just keep setting them up for you mate !!!!!!!

No need to thank me.

wibbbly....i'm worried about you! wrong timezone...off to get my cup...wasn't there when you needed some good strong experience on how to stay sober during the rough times :(

I saw you made it home...hope you are still safe and sober!

I kinda wondered....do you married men let your wifes or girls know that you are sober now? I am not sure but I think it would be harder if my son didn't know that I'm doing that now...might be harder to resist that urge if he had no clue that I needed to and wanted to stay completely off alchohol.

Also...Friday and Saturday nights are a really important time for me to make a meeting...face to face serious how to stay sober stuff...followed by the companionship of dinner with friends..often a light fun time...and spouses are always welcome for that dinner part too.

Having a support system on line and f2f has been critical for me.

Sorry to hog the thread here, but I am concerned wibbly!:ghug3

Hey Ananda, thanks for your concern. Its really nice.

I'm ok thanks, yesterday was tough but i made it through ok. I'm going to my first meeting on tuesday so as long as I can make it through the weekend i'll be fine. I made it through Friday night which was a really big deal for me so I'm on the right track.

Thanks though, its nice that you care!

What a ball! Right on his head for the top corner! Unstoppable!!!

Fridays were hard for a while, but each one I got through gave me strength. What helps me is to see the tough times coming in advance. It's the things that take me by surprise that blindside me still.

Btw, wibs, I told everyone on SR I was going to an AA meeting, like you have. And it helped me get through those doors - I didn't want to come back and say I'd bottled it!

Abolutely, don't reckon any other way would work at all. I gotta say she's really supportive. She's even gone through 'to wives' and 'the family afterwards' with me.

Mind you, gives her something to do whilst waiting for my toast to be done. Only joking, yup honesty is only way I reckon.

Having lived with an alcoholic husband and b/f myself, it's impossible not to notice when they stop nands! (just thinking, all my significant others, right from my first b/f, were alkies!).

They look better for one thing, literally within days, which is just as well coz they want nookie every darn five minutes! Very difficult to get your 10 minutes of cleaning done!

Think you maybe know my answer Nands, other won't though.

Different to Timzup, although my wife knows I used to drink and now haven't had a drink since May and that I don't want to drink when we go out and have no plans to drink through the festive season ( maybe never again but I ain't making that promise ) I've never told her the whole truth about my drinking habits.

She's not silly though, she can see I'm happier and fitter, I've not had a day where I've been too sick to get out of bed in 6 months whereas I used to have one a month or so.

I also don't use any face to face support at all, coming on here is all I do.

I find it easier cos if nobody knows the agonies going on in my mind sometimes when I do want a drink its easer to deal with them than if someone is fussying over me.

Ok, also reckon a wee part of me likes it that way as well so's its easier should I decide to drink again as well !!!!!!!!!!!

What I reckon though is that there is no right/wrong answers, just an end result ie staying sober.

Remember you know exactly what to look for Lostbug, far easier for an attict to spot another addict I reckon.

Actually just had a long conversation with my wife about all this. I don't really think she understands how bad i'd gotten. I guess I was better at hiding it than I thought. Its hard to express to someone that through the last few years the only thing going through your mind 24/7 was when you were going to drink next and how you could engineer the situation so you could drink.

This is all getting a bit serious kids anyway!!!

I never understood my ex b/f until these past three years and becoming an alkie myself. I just couldn't figure out why he didn't just stop doing stuff that was ripping us apart, and killing him.

Now I know. Great!

That's why I find AA so good. Just a room full of people who know how hard it is to live through the day without little comfort blankies. The obsession, the cravings. They've all been there. And they are all one drink away of landing right back there again and they know it!

Thats the reason why I enjoy SR so much though. I know everyone is going through the same thing and we all can relate to the madness!

I don't think I was an addict to start with tho. When I read the Friends and Family Forum, I used to feel exactly like they do, wonder all the same things.


My first real b/f, I was 16, he was 18, he had given up drugs and drank instead, from first thing in the morning onwards! He also had a motorbike, which was just the best fun, but I think we are both lucky to be alive, considering!

:ghug

I'm speaking at a meeting tody..suppose to be an hour.
(what it was like, what happened, what it is like now)

I wonder how they'll react if I say

I drank alot
I stoped
If you don't drink, you won't get drunk

and then sit down.:lmao

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wibbly...glad you're doing ok and I love that you are talking with your wife about it....My mom knew I was drinking again and too much, but she was shocked when she found out just how bad it was.

Fizzy...Thats one reason I love you so much....there are a million ways to do this deal cause different things work for everyone....I'm an odd ball around my town....some people are the potatos, and some of us...we are the salt and peper :)

Timmy....just be sure that she knows that to the wives and family afterwards was written by a bunch of white males in the 30s......and alchoholics to boot!!!! She can pm me if she wants to know the real deal (LOL)

LB - lots of recovering alchoholics end up in alanon or coda or something like that....most of us have a "duel diagonosis"!!!

Love your idea for the presentation.

If you could try and slip the word bollocks into it that'd be perfect....

Don't drink if your bullocks falls off????

day fourteen
 

Hi,
I am still in class of November, the ninth is my sobriety date, so today is day fourteen! I know I can do it and I need support and I support all of you!!
((((((((hugs))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Nands... I thought your Britishification was going really well but you've fallen for the classic mistake....

its Bollocks

not bullocks

subtle difference

Hey

Congratulations thats fantastic!

How have you been finding it, how was Friday night. We were discussing how hard they can be

Rubycanoe thats fantastic, well done! your sounding strong.

I'm not moving from the house today (except to pop to the stables) I've poured my wine down the sink!

I WILL NOT DRINK TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!