lonely sobriety
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: london
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Oh ok, no worries...well all you can do is look after yourself and your sobriety for now. Finding inner strength is important, look after yourself and try to keep busy, watch a favourite film or anything to try and distract you, post on here, read some stories....you arent alone on here 
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Louisiana
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I agree...sobriety is lonely for a while. I just used that quiet time to heal, try to mend my marriage, and learn to forgive myself. Things are really good now. It takes time, wess. But it's so worth it.
No quitting on yer quit eh!
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Alberta, Canada
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Welcome Wess, we are here for you! I'm also a contractor (plumbing/heating) out by Lloydminster
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 779
Lots and lots of people at AA meetings just waiting to listen to you.
I know this feeling all too well. My husband slept on the couch for 7 years. I'm going to be joining activities so that I can meet people and have sober fun. I am in AA, do some car club stuff, and am thinking of starting yoga classes and perhaps some art classes (acting class is fun too!).
This forum is great as well to help with loneliness. Hang in there.
I know this feeling all too well. My husband slept on the couch for 7 years. I'm going to be joining activities so that I can meet people and have sober fun. I am in AA, do some car club stuff, and am thinking of starting yoga classes and perhaps some art classes (acting class is fun too!).
This forum is great as well to help with loneliness. Hang in there.
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Essex
Posts: 411
Go GEAH 
Wess, know that feeling, and has been essential to make a plan consisting of things I like to do, that involve spending time with others, and things I just like to do....I live on my own too, so have to
Am moving house soon, so have been checking out availability of all the things I now I like now, and used to like when younger....joining a choir, improving my piano playing taking lessons, going to the philosophy school I study at, and finding a new AA home group. True too, that I like solitary activities, and when in the flow of them, I don't feel lonely...
An AA friend and me were talking loneliness the other week, and sometimes it is as simply relieved just by passing the time of day with someone...the simple how are you's and having a brief laugh...even if it's only with a neighbour or the person at the checkout, leaves me feeling I am part of the human race again, and relieves that alone feeling no end
Wish you well
Wess, know that feeling, and has been essential to make a plan consisting of things I like to do, that involve spending time with others, and things I just like to do....I live on my own too, so have to
Am moving house soon, so have been checking out availability of all the things I now I like now, and used to like when younger....joining a choir, improving my piano playing taking lessons, going to the philosophy school I study at, and finding a new AA home group. True too, that I like solitary activities, and when in the flow of them, I don't feel lonely...
An AA friend and me were talking loneliness the other week, and sometimes it is as simply relieved just by passing the time of day with someone...the simple how are you's and having a brief laugh...even if it's only with a neighbour or the person at the checkout, leaves me feeling I am part of the human race again, and relieves that alone feeling no end
Wish you well
Thywill
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: edmonton alberta
Posts: 29
lots has changed
OK four months now,Feeling much better. It took awhile but i am now adjusted to being sober.(mostly)I dont want to go back to my old life even though boredom seems to be a problem these days i enjoy the clarity and feeling healthy,my beer belly is shrinking which is a bonus,And I seem to be more aware of the effects of my actions have on other people.any ways I just want newcomers to know that it does get better over time maybe not easier but better.
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Lakeside, Ca
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Originally Posted by wess 
hi been sober for the past three months my wife sleeps on the couch till i fall asleep.It has been a lonely past three months i wish i could talk to somone
possibly counseling for you two ??
MM
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