What's your favorite moment of your sober day?
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Abroad
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I think it has to be the time when my husband comes home from work. He comes in the door and sees me making dinner while helping the kids with their homework, sober. The first few days he came in with a worried look on his face, and I knew that he had been worrying most of the day about what he might expect when he came home. Now he comes in the door with a big smile on his face, and I know that he's not the least bit worried about me. I just love that. <3
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Northeast US
Posts: 773
Leaving work and no longer wasting brain power and energy figuring out if we need alcohol for the house And which route I should go and where I should buy it based on where I last purchased so that I can still pick up the kids on time.
Feels pathetic to type that out but the absence of all that is pretty liberating.
Feels pathetic to type that out but the absence of all that is pretty liberating.
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 1,869
Weekend mornings are amazing. My hangovers were so bad I would lose the entire day. Now I wanke up happy and feeling good. I am not a morning person at all but since I quit drinking I really don't mind getting up to my yummy coffee with sugar and milk.
I love being sober! So happy.
I love being sober! So happy.
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Baton Rouge, La.
Posts: 15,236
Waking up in the morning, leaving yesterday
in the past, grabbing my first cup of freshly
brewed coffee, sitting to watch the days
weather, reading SR posts and sharing my
own ESH on a topic, then sitting outside
in the morning dawn to hear those first
birds waking up with delightful chirps.
My husband and I listen to the morning
music on a radio next to our favorite chairs
and sip our coffee slowly, relaxing and most
of all, grateful and blessed to be sober, happy
and free from any guilt. remorse, or past
addiction baggage.
Each new day sober is better than
any day drunk in the past.
in the past, grabbing my first cup of freshly
brewed coffee, sitting to watch the days
weather, reading SR posts and sharing my
own ESH on a topic, then sitting outside
in the morning dawn to hear those first
birds waking up with delightful chirps.
My husband and I listen to the morning
music on a radio next to our favorite chairs
and sip our coffee slowly, relaxing and most
of all, grateful and blessed to be sober, happy
and free from any guilt. remorse, or past
addiction baggage.
Each new day sober is better than
any day drunk in the past.
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: baltimore, maryland
Posts: 463
Great post...sometimes it is the little things I take for granted. I love going to the local store and not avoiding people I know, and actually engaging them in small talk. Before I would avoid this, for fear of someone would smell my booze breath!
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Australia
Posts: 1,499
My favourite time is the evening, after work, sitting back with a sense of contentedness that I've given my best that day. Feeling that satisfying tiredness from a good workout, enjoying a healthy dinner, followed by a cup of delicious herbal tea. It's exactly what I'm doing right now!
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: USA
Posts: 701
I agree, mornings without a queasy stomach, thumping headache, and my mouth feeling like I swallowed a bag of cottonballs is such a wonderful feeling!
Sometimes I see an intoxicated person, particularly friends, and I have a very happy moment, just being glad that's not me anymore.
I can definitely relate to happyandfree, it's great to be able to get in the car and go somewhere anytime I want without the fear of getting a DUI!
Yay sober life!!
Sometimes I see an intoxicated person, particularly friends, and I have a very happy moment, just being glad that's not me anymore.
I can definitely relate to happyandfree, it's great to be able to get in the car and go somewhere anytime I want without the fear of getting a DUI!
Yay sober life!!
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 120
I love waking up in the morning feeling rested. No worries about what might have happened the night before, no nauseous stomach, no throbbing head, no overwhelming guilt and self loathing. God, I don't know how I did that to myself for so long. I love waking up feeling hopeful about my day.
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Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 120
I love waking up in the morning feeling rested. No worries about what might have happened the night before, no nauseous stomach, no throbbing head, no overwhelming guilt and self loathing. God, I don't know how I did that to myself for so long. I love waking up feeling hopeful about my day.
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Gulf Coast, USA
Posts: 2,229
Spending quality time with my kids in the evenings after work. No constantly planning on my next drink...drink after drink after drink until passing out to start all over tomorrow!
Quality of life is what sobriety has brought back to me.
Quality of life is what sobriety has brought back to me.
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Castle Pines, CO
Posts: 747
GREAT POST!!!
For me, the best part of my sober day is...all of it! From waking up without a hangover, clear headed ready to take on life, to enjoying a hot shower and shave because it feels good, not becasue I hope it can wash the embarrassment and hangover away, to putting a solid day of work in to take care of the family, to driving home without even thinking about stopping at the liquor store, to enjoying dinner with my family instead of skipping it becasue I would rather start pounding beers, to working out for an hour before putting the kids to bed, to enjoying shows and books in the evening instead of wondering if I will run out of suds, to putting my head on the pillow at night becasue I am actually tired, not ready to pass out......ALL OF IT!
Being sober is beautiful!
For me, the best part of my sober day is...all of it! From waking up without a hangover, clear headed ready to take on life, to enjoying a hot shower and shave because it feels good, not becasue I hope it can wash the embarrassment and hangover away, to putting a solid day of work in to take care of the family, to driving home without even thinking about stopping at the liquor store, to enjoying dinner with my family instead of skipping it becasue I would rather start pounding beers, to working out for an hour before putting the kids to bed, to enjoying shows and books in the evening instead of wondering if I will run out of suds, to putting my head on the pillow at night becasue I am actually tired, not ready to pass out......ALL OF IT!
Being sober is beautiful!
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