Hi, I'm new and old at the same time!
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Join Date: Jul 2013
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Hi, I'm new and old at the same time!
Hello! I've been reading your posts for over a year now hoping that your experience would give me the strength to quit drinking beer. I am a 48-year-old mom and I know I need to quit drinking for my child's sake, and I make a point of it every morning. Yet, every night I fail to keep up what I promise to myself. It is very humiliating. I hope I can make it as an active member of the group! That's why I am here....
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Welcome rosillo - I'm so glad you decided to post. 
It really helps to know we are no longer alone.
I thought drinking was helping me cope with stressful situations & making life more fun. In the end, it did neither - I was miserable and broken. I was also drinking every day, and had been for many years. I knew there'd be no happy ending if I didn't let go of it - I was doing stupid & dangerous things. SR helped me find the courage to change my life. I think you'll feel the same.
It really helps to know we are no longer alone.I thought drinking was helping me cope with stressful situations & making life more fun. In the end, it did neither - I was miserable and broken. I was also drinking every day, and had been for many years. I knew there'd be no happy ending if I didn't let go of it - I was doing stupid & dangerous things. SR helped me find the courage to change my life. I think you'll feel the same.
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Join Date: Mar 2008
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Welcome to the family. You've come to a great place for support and encouragement. I hope we can help you get sober for good. 
I invite you to post daily in our 24 hour thread to recommit to sobriety every day.
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...art-272-a.html
You've come to a great place for support and encouragement. I hope we can help you get sober for good. I invite you to post daily in our 24 hour thread to recommit to sobriety every day.
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...art-272-a.html
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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Hi rosilla,
I was just like you. I quit drinking ever morning. Gradually the help hangover, guilt and anxiety would give in to my craving and I would be back drinking that evening. It was usually accompanied by a promise that I would drink less tonight than usually. That almost always failed.
I had to make a plan, I had to want sobriety more than anything else. I had to live minute by minute In the beginning. Then day to day. It's really hard but you have to want it. Glad you found us.
I was just like you. I quit drinking ever morning. Gradually the help hangover, guilt and anxiety would give in to my craving and I would be back drinking that evening. It was usually accompanied by a promise that I would drink less tonight than usually. That almost always failed.
I had to make a plan, I had to want sobriety more than anything else. I had to live minute by minute In the beginning. Then day to day. It's really hard but you have to want it. Glad you found us.
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: California
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Welcome to the posting side of SR! I stopped drinking at 45, and I have definitely been a more present mom, wife, and employee. This is a wonderful place for support. You should start posting in the 24 hour thread each day to commit to another 24 hours sober. Also, join the July class of 2017, you will be surrounded by others who have decided to stop drinking this month.
You can do this!!
You can do this!!
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Join Date: Jul 2015
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Welcome to the group, Rosillo. So glad you are here! This is a wonderful place.
I understand just where you are coming from. I am a mom too, just a little older, and also was on a treadmill of drinking, regret, shame and daily broken promises to myself, lurking here for several years first.
I am coming up on two months drinking free, and life is so much better already! (If you want to read my story, it's in the link below.)
Keep reading and posting. You can turn the corner. Introducing yourself was the first step!
Best wishes,
tealily
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rate-stop.html
I understand just where you are coming from. I am a mom too, just a little older, and also was on a treadmill of drinking, regret, shame and daily broken promises to myself, lurking here for several years first.
I am coming up on two months drinking free, and life is so much better already! (If you want to read my story, it's in the link below.)
Keep reading and posting. You can turn the corner. Introducing yourself was the first step!
Best wishes,
tealily
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rate-stop.html
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: South Africa
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Welcome Rosillo, always good to see someone from the Southern Hemisphere coming on board.
I hope that you shall soon be ready to tackle day 1 and to continue the journey from there, together with all of us. Having gone into posting mode is great start.
I hope that you shall soon be ready to tackle day 1 and to continue the journey from there, together with all of us. Having gone into posting mode is great start.
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