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Old 06-28-2010, 06:00 PM
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Lots of great advice here - welcome to SR todayistheday

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Old 06-28-2010, 08:44 PM
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hi todayistheday - glad you're here! I would always start out determined to only drink a certain amount, too. But I always wanted just one more glass. After that, then just one more wouldn't hurt. Etc. etc.......

The hangovers kept getting worse and I was spending mornings in bed wishing I didn't have to get up that day at all. Once I felt better, I figured maybe just a couple of glasses of wine wouldn't hurt. And I was off again.

Sobriety has to be #1 now. Every time you make it through a craving, it has less power the next time. Don't think about never drinking again. Just do it for today. The good news is you already have some tools from going to AA in the past and now you have us at SR! :day6 Hang in there!
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Old 06-28-2010, 09:59 PM
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Welcome to SR!! Plenty of support and info here and I am glad you want to stop. I drank wine too and much like you it wasn't that I had to have a drink in my hand 24/7....it was more the "i can't stop once i start."

I don't know how I got to that place but once I was powerless to it....every time I drank became one after another until I passed out, ran out of booze or was kicked out.

What I did was just stop. Not easy but the only sure way to fight the beast. I have not picked up nor even sipped a drink in over 70 something days. I accept I have no control over it and have relearned to live life sober. It is amazing

Best of luck and personally I have no problem being around folks who drink, or seeing advertisements or films that advocate alcohol. I know that alcohol is a drug for my alcoholic mind.

Keep posting friend.
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