2 Years ago tonight ..........
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Originally Posted by KateL 
What an uplifting story and very familiar. Well done for finding the strength to quit before getting into any serious bother. I am surprised no one smelled it on your breath. I used to imagine that vodka was odorless until people started telling me I was knocking them for six every time I grinned 
Your right about the smell Kate but thats what we do, we spend so much time trying to kid others that we kid ourselves. I would imagine most people would have smelt vodka off my breath and were too polite to say.
I d always be claiming a cold and eating menthol sweets, favourite trick was to have one drink in front of people as sell, half bottle in secret and one drink in the open which would explain any smell.
Life is so much better without all that crap.
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I was just reading some of the responses on the post I put up yesterday and somebody mentioned this post, I wrote this originaly roughly half way through my first year of sobriety.
Im not commenting on it now to get loads of well dones or pats on the back, in my mind now I just don t drink , was a big deal once but not any more.
Thought it might be worthwhile just to share my story with people just starting out just to show that it really can be done.
One or two people will remember me but most of you will never have heard from me as I really don t come back on here often enough to say thanks.
I didnt use any help to get sober though apart from leaning on the support I got from the good people on this forum. 10 years ago I was on here every day, talking to people , using it to fill the time, the support I recieved from like minded people just trying to get sober is everything why I m the person I am today.
I m not going to pretend to anyone that its easy and starting out is the hardest part. I dont have any magic answers apart from you just have to believe it gets easier and it truely does after a while. You just have to not pick up that drink. I stayed on here all night sometimes, just reading, posting, , most of it just rubbish but anything to fill the time, get me through that hour, let the feeling of needing a drink pass.
You hit a point though or at least I did that you just don t think of it anymore, you start doing different things, you make new friends, you have more energy and more money in your wallet. Weekends are great as they last longer and you don t waste days feeling ill.
I have so much to be gateful to this site for, I m sober, as someone pointed out earlier in the thread , my kids have never seen their dad drunk.
Son is now 14, daughter 12 later this year, I have a great family, I could so easily have thrown it all away.
To all the newcomers on here I wish you all the very best , I truely hope you can get as much from this site as I did.
The Mods, a few who are still here from when I was on every day, you are awesome, never ever underestimate the fantastic work you do and help you give to people.
Im not commenting on it now to get loads of well dones or pats on the back, in my mind now I just don t drink , was a big deal once but not any more.
Thought it might be worthwhile just to share my story with people just starting out just to show that it really can be done.
One or two people will remember me but most of you will never have heard from me as I really don t come back on here often enough to say thanks.
I didnt use any help to get sober though apart from leaning on the support I got from the good people on this forum. 10 years ago I was on here every day, talking to people , using it to fill the time, the support I recieved from like minded people just trying to get sober is everything why I m the person I am today.
I m not going to pretend to anyone that its easy and starting out is the hardest part. I dont have any magic answers apart from you just have to believe it gets easier and it truely does after a while. You just have to not pick up that drink. I stayed on here all night sometimes, just reading, posting, , most of it just rubbish but anything to fill the time, get me through that hour, let the feeling of needing a drink pass.
You hit a point though or at least I did that you just don t think of it anymore, you start doing different things, you make new friends, you have more energy and more money in your wallet. Weekends are great as they last longer and you don t waste days feeling ill.
I have so much to be gateful to this site for, I m sober, as someone pointed out earlier in the thread , my kids have never seen their dad drunk.
Son is now 14, daughter 12 later this year, I have a great family, I could so easily have thrown it all away.
To all the newcomers on here I wish you all the very best , I truely hope you can get as much from this site as I did.
The Mods, a few who are still here from when I was on every day, you are awesome, never ever underestimate the fantastic work you do and help you give to people.
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Hi Everyone, hope your all doing well or as well as you can be.
I haven’t been on here for over 2 years which is ridiculous and I feel bad about it as this forum probably saved my life nearly 13 years ago.
unbelievably my daughter who s birth I talked about in my story is now 14 and my son is very nearly 17 and it is one of the things I am most proud of overall , while lots of people have seen me drunk and in a right state in the past, neither of my kids ever have and hopefully never will.
The one thing I can tell people just starting out is that I m not here to say it’s easy or for people to say well done, but this forum really does work, I m proof of it, at the start I was on here day and night and found the support I needed, it was hard at times but days became weeks, then months and I can still remember how happy I was to have been sober a year.
Gradually after that I stopped counting, my visits here became less and less and over the more recent years I ve only popped back in to say thank you.
I have nt came back and said thank you enough though and I m embarrassed to say I only realised it was over 2 years since my last visit when I signed in.
I did still remember my username and password though 😊
Stick with it if your starting out, just do whatever it takes to not pick up that drink, the hours pass and it does become easier.
Even now though after all these years my brain try’s to catch me out, I was made redundant ( was luck got another job ) and I imagine like everyone else found lockdown and Covid tough, I didn’t but I did get thoughts of , you ve no work tomorrow, a couple of cans wouldn’t hurt or when I ve a cold and don’t feel well, just a wee nip of whisky wouldn’t hurt would it, I know it would though, I guess the thoughts never completely go away.
Anyway enough of me rambling on, a huge thank you once again to this forum, hi to anyone still here from my days and remembers me.
I haven’t been on here for over 2 years which is ridiculous and I feel bad about it as this forum probably saved my life nearly 13 years ago.
unbelievably my daughter who s birth I talked about in my story is now 14 and my son is very nearly 17 and it is one of the things I am most proud of overall , while lots of people have seen me drunk and in a right state in the past, neither of my kids ever have and hopefully never will.
The one thing I can tell people just starting out is that I m not here to say it’s easy or for people to say well done, but this forum really does work, I m proof of it, at the start I was on here day and night and found the support I needed, it was hard at times but days became weeks, then months and I can still remember how happy I was to have been sober a year.
Gradually after that I stopped counting, my visits here became less and less and over the more recent years I ve only popped back in to say thank you.
I have nt came back and said thank you enough though and I m embarrassed to say I only realised it was over 2 years since my last visit when I signed in.
I did still remember my username and password though 😊
Stick with it if your starting out, just do whatever it takes to not pick up that drink, the hours pass and it does become easier.
Even now though after all these years my brain try’s to catch me out, I was made redundant ( was luck got another job ) and I imagine like everyone else found lockdown and Covid tough, I didn’t but I did get thoughts of , you ve no work tomorrow, a couple of cans wouldn’t hurt or when I ve a cold and don’t feel well, just a wee nip of whisky wouldn’t hurt would it, I know it would though, I guess the thoughts never completely go away.
Anyway enough of me rambling on, a huge thank you once again to this forum, hi to anyone still here from my days and remembers me.
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Hevyn Least Dee, good to see you guys still here and hopefully doing well.
you are so right least, I should stop by more often, it’s the selfish part of me though, I was here every day when I needed you and now I don’t........
I was chatting online to someone today and admitted to them I had a drink problem in the past and that reminded me I hadn’t came by and said thanks in a while, I was shocked to sign in and realise it’s been over two years.
Worth mentioning I think to anyone starting out and doesn’t know me, if you guys remember, I never used any help from anywhere apart from these forums, not trying to pretend it’s easy but I m proof it is possible.
you are so right least, I should stop by more often, it’s the selfish part of me though, I was here every day when I needed you and now I don’t........
I was chatting online to someone today and admitted to them I had a drink problem in the past and that reminded me I hadn’t came by and said thanks in a while, I was shocked to sign in and realise it’s been over two years.
Worth mentioning I think to anyone starting out and doesn’t know me, if you guys remember, I never used any help from anywhere apart from these forums, not trying to pretend it’s easy but I m proof it is possible.
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Thank you for coming back to update, your story is more inspiring than you know. I’m brand new here and haven’t properly introduced myself yet- but a huge reason I find myself here is my 2 kids. I’m longing for a life where they will never experience a drunk parent again.
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GW80, your in the right place, go post and introduce yourself and take the help, I can’t really explain how it works so well , I just know it does, the help I received was incredible. There is always someone here to talk to which really helps. It was nearly 13 years ago but I spent entire nights on here in my early days, just chatting, posting nonsense but importantly not drinking.
Please don’t let your only post be in here, it’s selfish of me but I probably won’t hang around, there are plenty of folk who will though and they will support and help you.
Please don’t let your only post be in here, it’s selfish of me but I probably won’t hang around, there are plenty of folk who will though and they will support and help you.
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