How has 'sober you' surprised you?
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: midwest
Posts: 46
Only on day 9, but I sure do love sleeping well & love waking up without a hangover. I also like not feeling chained to my home at night for drinking. Running errands are so much more relaxed now. I like being out at night, driving around & seeing people living.
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Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Sydney
Posts: 82
What a great post and responses. I am on day 6 and was soooo sick of going to buy my booze at different places. What a stupid win. And they know anyway, the shaking hands and red face and that it's Monday is probably a good clue :-) I am going to tackle the kitchen! Mayg
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Toronto, Canada
Posts: 378
What really surprised me was that I actually enjoy:
-my own company
-sitting still as opposed to running around trying to do as many things as possible
-slow and sometimes uneventful weekends
-listening in a conversation
-early bedtimes
-dancing sober
-my own company
-sitting still as opposed to running around trying to do as many things as possible
-slow and sometimes uneventful weekends
-listening in a conversation
-early bedtimes
-dancing sober
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 563
Great thread! I feel proud and confident of who I am. I want to take care of myself mentally and physically because I feel that I am worth it. For the first time in years I look in the mirror and am happy with what I see.
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Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 596
I think most surprising to me at first is that I really am a pretty normal, typical guy, I just don't drink. There's really nothing odd about my not drinking either, no one even notices or cares, which I feared to death while I was trying to continue my drinking.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: New England
Posts: 2,414
Originally Posted by SoberFreckles 
I kinda love SoberFreckles, and I was just wondering if anyone else had been pleasantly surprised to discover once they got sober that they are not the person they thought they were at all?
Thanks for the thought inspiring Thread.
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 645
I was pleasantly surprised that around the six month mark, I was physically repulsed (gag almost) by wine when I would walk down that aisle at the grocery store. I'm amazed that any desire to ever drink again has completely disappeared. When I first got sober a few years back, I told myself that I would drink again 20 years from that time when I turned 65 years old. Now, that sounds so ridiculous and illogical. I will never drink again. Zero desire.
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 1,776
My growing sense of self confidence I think powered by the fact that I'm getting to know myself and more importantly backing myself.
I didn't realise I have low self esteem and was/is (av) a people pleaser.
Now I do things because I want to and because I don't do it to get others to think I'm great, I'm not let down when they don't tell me how great I am.
Jeez that's complicated
I didn't realise I have low self esteem and was/is (av) a people pleaser.
Now I do things because I want to and because I don't do it to get others to think I'm great, I'm not let down when they don't tell me how great I am.
Jeez that's complicated
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Join Date: May 2015
Location: rockville
Posts: 126
I'm still figuring out the sober me but the biggest thing so far is the refreshing feeling of the heavy monkey that has been hanging on my back for years being gone. Mornings have become something I look forward to now as well. Can't remember the last time I have said that...if ever...
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