A Very Dark day but there is light..
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Just found this thread and read all the way through....When I was at the worst of my drinking I was exactly the same,I didn't want anything to stop me from drinking,used to take the dog out for an extra walk or say I was gonna go and get the wife some chocolate from the shop just so I could go buy more beer....Then I used to leave it outside the back gate and go back in the house through the front door so she wouldn't see it....Even when she went into labour with our youngest daughter I told her it was braxton hicks just because I didn't want to go to the hospital cos I was drinking...All of that was 175 days ago,reading this thread bought back all the memories of what I was like and I never want to go back to being that selfish,addicted person....Thank you DD..
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DD its funny cause I was thinking about your orginal post the other day after reading your post in our January 2012 class. I thought man he sounds so great and has come such a long way since that long walk from the hospital........I'm very proud of you my friend you are absolutely a inspiration to me♥..... ...........Keep on rockin it Mr. Man
..xoxNel....I think its great you bump it, it shows it can be done!
...p.s. I love that we still post in Jan.'12 class..our class motto..Onward & Upward
..xoxNel....I think its great you bump it, it shows it can be done!
...p.s. I love that we still post in Jan.'12 class..our class motto..Onward & Upward
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In about 90 minutes time it will be 600 days stone cold sober since That walk home from the hospital 
Still cant relive I am this far, it really is the most beneficial and important thing I have ever done in my life.
I have bleated and wined a few times about cravings etc, but in the grand scale of things getting cravings is just that cravings, my brain is getting much more versed in how to deal with this situation the further I go.
Thanks again to all SR peeps !
Still cant relive I am this far, it really is the most beneficial and important thing I have ever done in my life.
I have bleated and wined a few times about cravings etc, but in the grand scale of things getting cravings is just that cravings, my brain is getting much more versed in how to deal with this situation the further I go.
Thanks again to all SR peeps !
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2 years stone cold sober
Ty you al at SR for helping me along the way.
I am a different person now at least I feel I am, still learning how to deal with raw real feelings, also feel different about lots of people in my life some better some worse but I suppose when you are "Yourself" you are going to look at people differently.
Still cannot believe it is 2 whole years since I walked back from the hospital swearing I would never drink again , feel its the greatest thing I have done for myself.
Ty you all, sober is very cool.
Ty you al at SR for helping me along the way.
I am a different person now at least I feel I am, still learning how to deal with raw real feelings, also feel different about lots of people in my life some better some worse but I suppose when you are "Yourself" you are going to look at people differently.
Still cannot believe it is 2 whole years since I walked back from the hospital swearing I would never drink again , feel its the greatest thing I have done for myself.
Ty you all, sober is very cool.
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Excellent thread, great effort from you to get this far.
Your story is so much like my own, I've been there and done it, even watched my own daughter born when I was hungover (Ok, so she surprised us by coming three weeks early but even so) and have made excuses not to take my wife to the hospital when she had a fall so I could stay at home and have a drink, making the in laws come over to take her instead. Shameful stuff, there's many more incidents where my being drunk has meant I haven't been there 100% for my family as well.
I'm only 12 days in and have been wobbling this weekend but this has made me doubly positive after managing to stay dry. Inspirational stuff.
Your story is so much like my own, I've been there and done it, even watched my own daughter born when I was hungover (Ok, so she surprised us by coming three weeks early but even so) and have made excuses not to take my wife to the hospital when she had a fall so I could stay at home and have a drink, making the in laws come over to take her instead. Shameful stuff, there's many more incidents where my being drunk has meant I haven't been there 100% for my family as well.
I'm only 12 days in and have been wobbling this weekend but this has made me doubly positive after managing to stay dry. Inspirational stuff.
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Thank you for your honesty. Just think in the positive, your daughter will see you as a new person, you'll have greater intimacy with the Mrs & your girl.
It could have been much more tragic, thankfully it wasn't, and off you go to a new you, family, husband, dad...
Very touching.
Prayers for you!
It could have been much more tragic, thankfully it wasn't, and off you go to a new you, family, husband, dad...
Very touching.
Prayers for you!
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