Yesterday was a BITCH!!
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Yesterday was a BITCH!!
Yesterday was Easter and the weather was beautiful.
My dad and cousin show up wioth a 24 pack. They sit outside on my deck and have a couple. In the meantime I am thinking to myself, wouldnt it be nice to have one on this nice day. SO after a few, my cousin asks me if I was gonna drink. I told him, nah, I'm trying to quit. I stopped about a month and a half ago. So anyway, no one gave me a hard time. But for about an hour there, the urge was pretty good!!!!! But I didnt give in and manage to survive the day without any. Meranwhile the S.O.B.S left beer in my fridge. SO i now have about a twelve pack left between this gathering and the last. LOL!! I wont drink it, its just there for the next time they come over.
Anyway, just thought I would say something.
My dad and cousin show up wioth a 24 pack. They sit outside on my deck and have a couple. In the meantime I am thinking to myself, wouldnt it be nice to have one on this nice day. SO after a few, my cousin asks me if I was gonna drink. I told him, nah, I'm trying to quit. I stopped about a month and a half ago. So anyway, no one gave me a hard time. But for about an hour there, the urge was pretty good!!!!! But I didnt give in and manage to survive the day without any. Meranwhile the S.O.B.S left beer in my fridge. SO i now have about a twelve pack left between this gathering and the last. LOL!! I wont drink it, its just there for the next time they come over.
Anyway, just thought I would say something.
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Nice job on being strong Hunter. I know the feeling, and while it's tough being around family while they are drinking we all know what will happen if we "have just one".
Regarding the leftovers - I'd honestly dump them out. I allow alcohol in my house if others bring it over and consume it themselves, but I also ask that they take it with when they leave. My father in law left a few craft beers behind last time he visited and I dumped them out promptly, It's just a distraction I don't need to have.
Regarding the leftovers - I'd honestly dump them out. I allow alcohol in my house if others bring it over and consume it themselves, but I also ask that they take it with when they leave. My father in law left a few craft beers behind last time he visited and I dumped them out promptly, It's just a distraction I don't need to have.
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nice job hunter,
my people didn't drink at all yesterday, just water and coffee, so I was not even exposed to it, except for the dozen bottles of wine in racks.
remind yourself, and them next time to take it with them.
my people didn't drink at all yesterday, just water and coffee, so I was not even exposed to it, except for the dozen bottles of wine in racks.
remind yourself, and them next time to take it with them.
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Originally Posted by Hunter101 
Yesterday was Easter and the weather was beautiful.
My dad and cousin show up wioth a 24 pack. They sit outside on my deck and have a couple. In the meantime I am thinking to myself, wouldnt it be nice to have one on this nice day. SO after a few, my cousin asks me if I was gonna drink. I told him, nah, I'm trying to quit. I stopped about a month and a half ago. So anyway, no one gave me a hard time. But for about an hour there, the urge was pretty good!!!!! But I didnt give in and manage to survive the day without any. Meranwhile the S.O.B.S left beer in my fridge. SO i now have about a twelve pack left between this gathering and the last. LOL!! I wont drink it, its just there for the next time they come over.
Anyway, just thought I would say something.
My dad and cousin show up wioth a 24 pack. They sit outside on my deck and have a couple. In the meantime I am thinking to myself, wouldnt it be nice to have one on this nice day. SO after a few, my cousin asks me if I was gonna drink. I told him, nah, I'm trying to quit. I stopped about a month and a half ago. So anyway, no one gave me a hard time. But for about an hour there, the urge was pretty good!!!!! But I didnt give in and manage to survive the day without any. Meranwhile the S.O.B.S left beer in my fridge. SO i now have about a twelve pack left between this gathering and the last. LOL!! I wont drink it, its just there for the next time they come over.
Anyway, just thought I would say something.
Proud of you Hunter.
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Originally Posted by Stoogy
Well done on abstaining, I find it harder when the ☀️ Is shining. Just something about having a cold one while working on the car or garden, many people in recovery prefer not to have alcohol in the house at all (invisible tentacles thing) but if you are strong willed enough then good on you.
Proud of you Hunter.
Proud of you Hunter.
As I sat there yesterday, I was thinking, boy, I definately dont miss waking up and feeling like ****. Plus, my significant other isnt the most pleasant person to live with. So by me not drinking, it actually helps!!
When I was drinking, she would mentally take advantage of me. More of like a control kinda thing, then I would get angry and **** would hit the fan.
Now, I am not drinking. So I can just ignore her or do whatever I want, because I am in control!!!
Oh and the best part is, she use to bitch all the time for me to stop drinking, SHe would say, things would get better if I did with us.
Honestly! I stopped drinking and aint **** changed!! LOL!
The only thing that has changed is that I am not drunk and can deal with her bull ****!
I dont know how I started talking about her, but oh well. LOL!
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Even with my 23 yrs sobriety, I still
would not trust myself babysitting
someone elses poison.
No matter how strong and secure I
feel in my program, there's no guarantee
that someone, some thing will ruffle my
feathers, ticking me off, or I may cop
an attitude, mood swing, resentment,
something not going my way, that would
safe guard me from reaching for poison that
would emmediately take me to that dark
place I began yrs ago.
Alcohol is cunning, baffling and powerful,
lurking nearby waiting patiently to attack
or take by surprise when least expected.
The only way to ensure that I don't fall
victim of relapsing, is simply follow suggestions
of many who have learned to remain sober
a many one days at a time for yrs down the
road and incorporating a program of recovery
in my everyday life.
would not trust myself babysitting
someone elses poison.
No matter how strong and secure I
feel in my program, there's no guarantee
that someone, some thing will ruffle my
feathers, ticking me off, or I may cop
an attitude, mood swing, resentment,
something not going my way, that would
safe guard me from reaching for poison that
would emmediately take me to that dark
place I began yrs ago.
Alcohol is cunning, baffling and powerful,
lurking nearby waiting patiently to attack
or take by surprise when least expected.
The only way to ensure that I don't fall
victim of relapsing, is simply follow suggestions
of many who have learned to remain sober
a many one days at a time for yrs down the
road and incorporating a program of recovery
in my everyday life.
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Great job resisting that temptation. Sucks that they left the beer. When I was drinking I felt really entitled to my liquor, sober people be dammed. Now it's the opposite, that beer they parked in my fridge would be going in the garbage or down the sink. Nothing/nobody threatens my sobriety.
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