Don't want to drink today
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Don't want to drink today
Day 1.
I'm trying to quit. I feel like I'm missing out on opportunities and living my best life by drinking.
Sometimes it's just a few drinks on the weekends. Other times, like this week, it was a bottle a day from Sunday - Tuesday. By Tuesday, I spent the afternoon thinking about going home and opening that bottle. I even left work 30 minutes early.
Someone described it well in another post - they were just filling up those four hours a day after work just because. . . that describes me, except I want to do something else in those four hours. Learn a new language, take some online courses, read a book - that would be my ideal life. Hopefully staying away from the bottle will help me get closer to that goal.
Thank you all for your posts.
I'm trying to quit. I feel like I'm missing out on opportunities and living my best life by drinking.
Sometimes it's just a few drinks on the weekends. Other times, like this week, it was a bottle a day from Sunday - Tuesday. By Tuesday, I spent the afternoon thinking about going home and opening that bottle. I even left work 30 minutes early.
Someone described it well in another post - they were just filling up those four hours a day after work just because. . . that describes me, except I want to do something else in those four hours. Learn a new language, take some online courses, read a book - that would be my ideal life. Hopefully staying away from the bottle will help me get closer to that goal.
Thank you all for your posts.
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Join Date: Feb 2017
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Originally Posted by 2ndhandrose 
If "that bottle" you referenced is in your house, please get rid of it. You have no use for it.
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Originally Posted by asteriluxe
Opened it last night and kicking myself that I didn't pour it out this morning. The good thing is I'm day-dreaming about pouring it out as soon as I get home, as opposed to drinking it.
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: New Zealand
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I am going to pass on to you an invitation I received.
" But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you. It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when you were getting another drink."
It has never failed me.
" But if you really and truly want to quit drinking liquor for good and all, and sincerely feel that you must have some help, we know that we have an answer for you. It never fails, if you go about it with one half the zeal you have been in the habit of showing when you were getting another drink."
It has never failed me.
. You dont ever have to drink again!
Don't Blink
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 342
Been there many times. It only gets worse. You'll start drinking earlier and more often and lose more valuable time. I have so much more time now where I'm not completely useless at best or suicidal/ violent at worst.
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