Bought beer haven't opened it
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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If you buy it and bring it home, the relapse is planned. I've been there. Once I threw unopened beer cans out the window of my car as I was driving home from the store. It was an almost nightly struggle for a while until I broke the "muscle memory" of stopping at the store every night after work.
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Great decision.
Now, I have to ask since no one has....what are you going to do next time, so you don't buy it in the first place? What's the plan to be sober - including not putting yourself in position to buy or drink alcohol? At first, literal plans (like not being around it and going to meetings and only eating out with my parents) were simple and concrete for me. Still are, they have just evolved with longer sobriety.
You can do this.
Now, I have to ask since no one has....what are you going to do next time, so you don't buy it in the first place? What's the plan to be sober - including not putting yourself in position to buy or drink alcohol? At first, literal plans (like not being around it and going to meetings and only eating out with my parents) were simple and concrete for me. Still are, they have just evolved with longer sobriety.
You can do this.
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: USA
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There were so many times when I would buy some beer or wine and be like, "ok, I'm gonna drink this and then quit/cut down/ stop until my next race." Almost inevitably, I would pass out before supply was gone then next day, there it was.. So then I was like "ok, I'm gonna drink these last 2 beers and then be done." Problem is, the smallest bit left me wanting for more, as I'm sure the case with most of us! So in my buzzed state, I would have the hubby pick up more on his way home.
My last day 1 (almost 90 days!!) I had over 1/2 bottle of the good wine ($30) and a few bottles of my favorite craft beer in the fridge. I think I waited a day or 2, but I knew I had enough of the BS. Still in my guilt ridden, shaky condition, I poured all that &@$! down the sink. I actually said "F you f$&@! alcohol!" It was cathartic! It made me feel a bit proud of my stupid self.
Voshen, I'm glad you made it to the dumpster! Don't worry about the $8. Be proud of yourself
My last day 1 (almost 90 days!!) I had over 1/2 bottle of the good wine ($30) and a few bottles of my favorite craft beer in the fridge. I think I waited a day or 2, but I knew I had enough of the BS. Still in my guilt ridden, shaky condition, I poured all that &@$! down the sink. I actually said "F you f$&@! alcohol!" It was cathartic! It made me feel a bit proud of my stupid self.
Voshen, I'm glad you made it to the dumpster! Don't worry about the $8. Be proud of yourself
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