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Thanks all. Just trying to figure myself out and stay healthy.
I go months without drinking due to being out of town for work and it's fine. Like no issue at all. But as soon as I'm back home I tend to fall back into the trap of drinking. Why?
I go months without drinking due to being out of town for work and it's fine. Like no issue at all. But as soon as I'm back home I tend to fall back into the trap of drinking. Why?
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Maybe home is your comfort zone. In my early stages, I wouldn't drink the night before work. As my drinking advanced, I drank AT work. Which was perfectly okay in the trade I was in as long as I wasn't falling down drunk.
I worked with a lot of alcoholics. Some of them are dead now and that's where I was headed.
At the end I was injured (sober) and drank around the clock. I was out of control.
I drank like that for ten years.
I don't know about you. Maybe you have more responsibilities while traveling that keep you sober.
Wish I could help more. But I can relate.
I worked with a lot of alcoholics. Some of them are dead now and that's where I was headed.
At the end I was injured (sober) and drank around the clock. I was out of control.
I drank like that for ten years.
I don't know about you. Maybe you have more responsibilities while traveling that keep you sober.
Wish I could help more. But I can relate.
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Originally Posted by Behere 
Thanks all. Just trying to figure myself out and stay healthy.
I go months without drinking due to being out of town for work and it's fine. Like no issue at all. But as soon as I'm back home I tend to fall back into the trap of drinking. Why?
I go months without drinking due to being out of town for work and it's fine. Like no issue at all. But as soon as I'm back home I tend to fall back into the trap of drinking. Why?
Maybe you're not going to find out 'why'. Do you need to? Could you settle with finding a way not to? If so, here it is, don't take the first drink - no matter where you are.
If you're on a sinking ship, do you hang around to figure out why it started sinking, or do you just get off and into a life-raft double-quick?? Choice is yours, as it was mine.
Wishing you all the best for a happy, serene and sober future.
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Often times, in fact I'd say most of the time, we never figure out why. It just is what it is as annoying/frustrating/anger-inducing as that is. But we can figure out the way out, there is a solution. It is not an easy one, but entirely do-able, we just stop drinking. We are all here to support you in that journey as you here to support us, we are all in this together.
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