Lost wife's keys - dealing with mistakes while sober
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Lost wife's keys - dealing with mistakes while sober
My memory is still slightly disfunctional from decades of boozing...i currently seem to have lost my wifes set of extra house keys, and stressing about it. i'm tired of getting torn apart for so many small mistakes constantly. cant seem to get any inspiration from our spiritual literature on this one to get it off my mind...
Does anyone find these mishaps and mistakes even more painful while sober? while drinking i had the i was wasted excuse... I talked to a bunch of aa members in my group about other things and at least felt slightly better.
Does anyone find these mishaps and mistakes even more painful while sober? while drinking i had the i was wasted excuse... I talked to a bunch of aa members in my group about other things and at least felt slightly better.
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tell ya what... I'm a TOTAL scatterbrain, sober or not. When it comes to little details like keys.
Recently, I lost my own keys and thought I'd lost them in the snow while shoveling and found out to get a new key would cost me about $300 because it's a damn programmable key that the car won't start without programming - so I'd have to have the car towed to the dealership and special order a key.
I pretty much lost my mind over it.... then the next day my daughter found the key where I'd left it in her bedroom.
Maybe one approach is to just make light of it.... "HEY!! I may be a total scatterbrain, but at least I'm not DRUNK!!!"
This seems like it falls neatly into the category of "small stuff" - not to sweat. Though boy do I know how frustrating the small stuff can be!
Recently, I lost my own keys and thought I'd lost them in the snow while shoveling and found out to get a new key would cost me about $300 because it's a damn programmable key that the car won't start without programming - so I'd have to have the car towed to the dealership and special order a key.
I pretty much lost my mind over it.... then the next day my daughter found the key where I'd left it in her bedroom.
Maybe one approach is to just make light of it.... "HEY!! I may be a total scatterbrain, but at least I'm not DRUNK!!!"
This seems like it falls neatly into the category of "small stuff" - not to sweat. Though boy do I know how frustrating the small stuff can be!
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I think you are beating yourself up over something that is relatively minor and something that can really happen to anyone. Ease up on yourself. Staying sober is hard enough. Don't beat yourself up over the small stuff.
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Yes, I am so forgetful during early recovery. More so than any other time. No worries, this too shall pass. I have to remind myself (for each crazy symptom), drinking now will only put me back to day one, and no, I do not want to start this process over, thank you very much.
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think about it - is it impossible to think you would have lost the keys while drinking? - of course not - stuff like this happens - difference is you are sober and it is consuming you where as when you were drunk you would have probably just shrugged off the loss as a casualty and not cared.
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