Name a nice thing someone did to help support your sobriety
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: London
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A lady bought me a bus pass so I could go to plenty of meetings, offered to come to housing court with me and wrote a letter to send to the court.
My sponsor bought me the AA Big Book and wrote a lovely message in the front cover. She also offered to let me use her hot water.
Another lady bought me Came to Believe and told me that she used to read a story from it every day to help with Step 2.
Numerous women in AA have given me their phone numbers and lots of people have told me about meetings I might find useful.
My GP didn't bitch and moan at me for not coming to him earlier when I went to him after my slip and told him for the first time that I was trying to get sober. He was just really helpful and said "well done, great job" as I was leaving.
And of course, everyone on SR - people who've replied to my threads and posts, people whose threads and posts I've read, people whose threads I've replied to - you've all given me so much help, hope and strength, whether you realize it or not.
My sponsor bought me the AA Big Book and wrote a lovely message in the front cover. She also offered to let me use her hot water.
Another lady bought me Came to Believe and told me that she used to read a story from it every day to help with Step 2.
Numerous women in AA have given me their phone numbers and lots of people have told me about meetings I might find useful.
My GP didn't bitch and moan at me for not coming to him earlier when I went to him after my slip and told him for the first time that I was trying to get sober. He was just really helpful and said "well done, great job" as I was leaving.
And of course, everyone on SR - people who've replied to my threads and posts, people whose threads and posts I've read, people whose threads I've replied to - you've all given me so much help, hope and strength, whether you realize it or not.
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Day 3..today. My husband. So patient and loving. Sober with me. Loaded the dishwasher and cooked my breakfast. He helped me get up and and helped me put my baby plants outside to harden them for my garden. I love him. Thank god for him. While those may seem like small things- I'm very grateful.
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: East Coast, The States
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I have received tons of support from family and friends to sell my house, relocate, and buy.
I so want a new place that has NO drinking memories as I drank alone at home all the time secretly.
I so want a new place that has NO drinking memories as I drank alone at home all the time secretly.
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When I went to a wedding recently a girlfriend I met there asked me if I minded if she had one drink saying if I preferred she wouldn't, then she gladly wouldn't.
I didn't mind if she did, but it was nice she asked. I know her intentions were loving.
I didn't mind if she did, but it was nice she asked. I know her intentions were loving.
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I moved to a new town in October and I've had three family come visit .
And none of them brought alcohol into my new home (though i said they could)
And all of them said they can do without it for the visit.
And none of them brought alcohol into my new home (though i said they could)
And all of them said they can do without it for the visit.
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Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NY
Posts: 56
My first meeting, after hearing all the shares and clenching my fists, and biting my lip not to cry - I just let it out. The truth just left me; I said "I'm here because my family doesn't want to be around me anymore"...
First thing I heard was, "You're okay, you are in the right place"... Followed by "We're your family now".
Amidst my tears, the speaker got up, walked to the end of the room and came back with a Basic Text book, and paid for it. I was overwhelmed by her kindness. I was so down and out and she just gave me that push... That feeling of relief. She worded to me, "Read the inside flap" and I did and just smiled, and held onto it for dear life.
Without her, and that selfless act... I probably wouldn't have made it through that weekend.
First thing I heard was, "You're okay, you are in the right place"... Followed by "We're your family now".
Amidst my tears, the speaker got up, walked to the end of the room and came back with a Basic Text book, and paid for it. I was overwhelmed by her kindness. I was so down and out and she just gave me that push... That feeling of relief. She worded to me, "Read the inside flap" and I did and just smiled, and held onto it for dear life.
Without her, and that selfless act... I probably wouldn't have made it through that weekend.
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Recently when my brother and his wife had me over with family to watch football, they'd bought (special for me) cranberry juice and club soda and lime, and prepared it for me just how I like!
They often do that with guests favorite liquor, but had never done it for me for my favorite non alcohol party drink.
I felt really touched and felt as equally catered to as all the other people there who all drank. I felt like they've really accepted now, that this person, their sister and their former drinking buddy, is staying a non drinker for good... and it's okay.
They often do that with guests favorite liquor, but had never done it for me for my favorite non alcohol party drink.
I felt really touched and felt as equally catered to as all the other people there who all drank. I felt like they've really accepted now, that this person, their sister and their former drinking buddy, is staying a non drinker for good... and it's okay.
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Recently at a wedding reception I asked the waiter to give me club soda instead of champagne, and he not only did that,
but he also kept me supplied with club soda on ice all night long without me even having to ask.
but he also kept me supplied with club soda on ice all night long without me even having to ask.
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