It's almost X-mas
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It's almost X-mas
Another holiday coming up with commercials for alcohol saying that is how to spend time for holidays and with your family is to drink. I am making it thru the commercials just fine and will spend time with my wife alcohol free. Hope you all are doing well.
Oh and remember when they use to have cigarette commercials and now the have horrible side effects from smoking commercials. When are they going to make commercials that shows a liver with cirrhosis of the liver and DUI accidents and other horrible stories of alcohol.
Sober Date 12/22/11
Oh and remember when they use to have cigarette commercials and now the have horrible side effects from smoking commercials. When are they going to make commercials that shows a liver with cirrhosis of the liver and DUI accidents and other horrible stories of alcohol.
Sober Date 12/22/11
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Originally Posted by magusadam 
Oh and remember when they use to have cigarette commercials and now the have horrible side effects from smoking commercials. When are they going to make commercials that shows a liver with cirrhosis of the liver and DUI accidents and other horrible stories of alcohol.
Classic!
Great point you make in comparing the old tobacco ads to present day alcohol ads. I'm going to carry this thought with me when I see them, especially as the Christmas/New Years holiday season approaches.
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This will be my first sober Christmas in ages( besides being pregnant and breastfeeding)
and I am feeling great about it, only off putting thing is it is going to be full of people drinking around me, the thought of this is not making me feel like I want to drink, more that it is going to be a reminder of my destructive relationship with alcohol. I know it might sound silly but I'm worried that extended family members might start asking why i'm not drinking and I'm not ready to talk to all of them about it yet. Its still so new and personal I just don't want to get into it with everyone at Christmas.
Has anyone else felt this way?
and I am feeling great about it, only off putting thing is it is going to be full of people drinking around me, the thought of this is not making me feel like I want to drink, more that it is going to be a reminder of my destructive relationship with alcohol. I know it might sound silly but I'm worried that extended family members might start asking why i'm not drinking and I'm not ready to talk to all of them about it yet. Its still so new and personal I just don't want to get into it with everyone at Christmas.
Has anyone else felt this way?
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Originally Posted by Ange4
This will be my first sober Christmas in ages( besides being pregnant and breastfeeding)
and I am feeling great about it, only off putting thing is it is going to be full of people drinking around me, the thought of this is not making me feel like I want to drink, more that it is going to be a reminder of my destructive relationship with alcohol. I know it might sound silly but I'm worried that extended family members might start asking why i'm not drinking and I'm not ready to talk to all of them about it yet. Its still so new and personal I just don't want to get into it with everyone at Christmas.
Has anyone else felt this way?
and I am feeling great about it, only off putting thing is it is going to be full of people drinking around me, the thought of this is not making me feel like I want to drink, more that it is going to be a reminder of my destructive relationship with alcohol. I know it might sound silly but I'm worried that extended family members might start asking why i'm not drinking and I'm not ready to talk to all of them about it yet. Its still so new and personal I just don't want to get into it with everyone at Christmas.
Has anyone else felt this way?
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Spending time with friends and family during the holidays is an altogether different experience for me when I'm sober. No TV ads, no lure of flashing lights and Christmas trees in bars, and no force in heaven or on Earth moves me to drink at such times.
I remember thinking on my first sober Christmas that I'll never have to be drunk again during the holidays. The moment was sublime, and was true for the following twenty four years until I relapsed for three years.
Sobriety has given me more than I could ever imagine, and I'm in no hurry to give it all back.
I remember thinking on my first sober Christmas that I'll never have to be drunk again during the holidays. The moment was sublime, and was true for the following twenty four years until I relapsed for three years.
Sobriety has given me more than I could ever imagine, and I'm in no hurry to give it all back.
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