When does this get easier?
~sb
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: MD
Posts: 15,960
I just feel badly for those children. Maybe you can organize some games for those children next time and keep them busier and supervised! You'll be their favorite relative!
I'm glad you stayed sober! I've found the more I stay stopped, the more sober people I notice and even make friends with--anywhere I go! It's a great experience.
Have a wonderful sober Sunday!
I'm glad you stayed sober! I've found the more I stay stopped, the more sober people I notice and even make friends with--anywhere I go! It's a great experience.
Have a wonderful sober Sunday!
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Sober State
Posts: 1,126
It got easier for me when I decided & accepted I would never drink again. Now others drinking doesn't bother me. Too bad for them. I am happy & not chemically dependent anymore. Keep on going. It will get easier.
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Toronto ON
Posts: 1,180
My sister-in-law doesn't really drink but her husband certainly does. In the past when I was drinking right along with him I'd thought it odd that she would often head out to see a movie right in the middle of an evening of drinking.
Now it seems like a pretty good strategy on her part. I'm looking forward to tagging along next time.
Now it seems like a pretty good strategy on her part. I'm looking forward to tagging along next time.
The Long Climb
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Canada
Posts: 120
Originally Posted by Dee74 
(Curiously they seem to drink a lot less now since I stopped....hmmm)
D.
Mine too.
I am from a drinking family and chose friends that liked it too. Parties were wild when we got together (and that was often).
I had a lot of difficulty in the beginning of my sobriety going to family functions. Some would tease me about not drinking, and the more they drank the more abusive their teasing became.
I limited my attendance at these functions. Once the drinking began, I left.
Now I visit with my family more than before, and they drink less and less. No one teases me anymore. And no one gets falling down drunk either.
Hang in there. It does get better. It can be really trying at times but stick with it. It's worth it.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: London
Posts: 1,384
Agree
Originally Posted by Zebra1275
We always have such wonderful alcohol induced evenings.
have all proceeded to get extremely drunk, falling over, shouting and swearing etc and I felt really uncomfortable all this was happening in front of their kids.
In my mind these two statements contradict each other.
have all proceeded to get extremely drunk, falling over, shouting and swearing etc and I felt really uncomfortable all this was happening in front of their kids.
In my mind these two statements contradict each other.
Reading this makes me so glad to be sober.
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