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And Nonsensical I can't tell you how much that one line " I drank enough to kill a normal person" resonates every time I pass it.

Glad to be alive and have this chance again.

Your line in the other thread about how you used to be able to drink at night with no effects the next day, but gradually your capacity kept going up and up and the ill effects came... that fits me to a 'T'. In the last year I was drinking so much at night I would wake up still drunk - and you know what a drunk wants...another drink.

That's no way to live. That's a way to die alone. I can't have it any more.

every day you do not drink you will be grateful the next morning.

we have all been there and can relate to the guilt you feel over not being present for your family and children, friends, parents, the embarrassment and then when you drink again, you forget that part.

without sounding too preachy (i hate that for the new people), Alcohol will steal from you, make you depressed and feel craptastic. when you let it go, you open up a whole world of better possibilities both physically and mentally.

welcome.

I am lucky my severe drinking, well let's say finely honed idiocy, didn't take everything from me already. Kids all alive and well, husband who still loves me after me not loving me for so long, new job to start next week (didn't lose it, just work term gigs), no police record or DUI or anything. Makes me think God really must watch out for fools and babes.

I wish I had come to this place before, but I'm really glad I didn't get here any later.

It's time to make dinner. My husband called back and he'll be home in a couple hours. It's the first he's come back early from a trip where I didn't immediately think "crap, how long do I have to at least halfway sober up so it looks like I only started drinking now?"

I think I'm having a crush with being sober. After two short days, it seems too easy so far. Two days. I'm now getting nervous about when the inevitable voice comes back. It could be a week or 3 months before this infatuation fades. I'm going to stay here with SR. Loads of support. I just can't get ahead of myself.

Bunny, I'm glad to see you're still here. I am too. Day 5, first sober Friday in many, many years. I excited to go to bed to see what it feels like to wake up sober and full of energy on a Saturday :) I'm meeting my mom for birthday dinner tomorrow not hungover OR drunk.