Barely hanging in...
Samantha
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Join Date: Sep 2017
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Barely hanging in...
Almost 1.5 months sober.
Tonight I went through a business meeting with free drinks and everyone at my table drinking but me.
Was also recently my 5 year anniversary and I really wanted champagne to celebrate.
It was so hard to get through these things, and I don't feel any better about myself.
Tonight I went through a business meeting with free drinks and everyone at my table drinking but me.
Was also recently my 5 year anniversary and I really wanted champagne to celebrate.
It was so hard to get through these things, and I don't feel any better about myself.
I guess my thoughts are you don't have to feel anything about it. I mean, it'd be a bonus if you felt proud of yourself, but that's up to you.
All you need to do is not drink. ✓
For what it's worth, I'm proud of you. Hopefully you'll get on board soon.
Jules
All you need to do is not drink. ✓
For what it's worth, I'm proud of you. Hopefully you'll get on board soon.
Jules
You're not shackled to not drinking, you're free from drinking
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: MN
Posts: 1,406
You did a great job. And you should be proud of what you did. 1.5 months is early and it does get a lot easier to attend these types of events and not feel like you need to drink. We just celebrated your 8th wedding anniversary tonight and it never crossed my mind to have a drink. I'm just over two years sober as a point of reference.
Hi Anarock
the bottom line is, fair or not, alcohol affects us differently than it does other people.
One drink for someone else could be the start of a long binge for us.
The more I stay sober the more I see I do not need alcohol to fit in or have fun, and I can certainly celebrate without it.
I hope you'll come to see that too.
Give sobriety a chance
the bottom line is, fair or not, alcohol affects us differently than it does other people.
One drink for someone else could be the start of a long binge for us.
The more I stay sober the more I see I do not need alcohol to fit in or have fun, and I can certainly celebrate without it.
I hope you'll come to see that too.
Give sobriety a chance
It helps me a lot to remember what it was really like for me, drinking. 'A' glass of champagne was not at all what I wanted, I wanted lots to drink, enough to make me act stupid and be sick the next day. I wrote it out, things it did to me, times that were really bad. Also I wrote out the ways I know I'm an alcoholic.
It is sometimes hard for me to have lost alcohol. Even though it was so bad for me, and hurt me in so many ways, it was what I knew. It was what I turned to for release, celebration, and lots more. But, it was killing me. And now it's not, and I love that.
I hope you get past this, that it's just a phase of your recovery, and soon you start feeling great about feeling better.
It is sometimes hard for me to have lost alcohol. Even though it was so bad for me, and hurt me in so many ways, it was what I knew. It was what I turned to for release, celebration, and lots more. But, it was killing me. And now it's not, and I love that.
I hope you get past this, that it's just a phase of your recovery, and soon you start feeling great about feeling better.
1.5 months is nice.
Bet generally you feel better than when you were boozing... ?
Business meetings dinner and work trips are tough for us all...especially after 1.5 months.
No one needs alcohol to celebrate its just cliché society and tv all that.
Well done on 1.5 months.
We have the same sober time
Bet generally you feel better than when you were boozing... ?
Business meetings dinner and work trips are tough for us all...especially after 1.5 months.
No one needs alcohol to celebrate its just cliché society and tv all that.
Well done on 1.5 months.
We have the same sober time
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Join Date: Feb 2017
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I feel you. I understand. You lived life as it should be, on your terms. Lots of decisions will come up in our lives. A decision to not drink and sticking to it gives us all hope. We do not have to struggle over alcohol anymore. Great inspiration.
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Almost 1.5 months sober.
Tonight I went through a business meeting with free drinks and everyone at my table drinking but me.
Was also recently my 5 year anniversary and I really wanted champagne to celebrate.
It was so hard to get through these things, and I don't feel any better about myself.
Tonight I went through a business meeting with free drinks and everyone at my table drinking but me.
Was also recently my 5 year anniversary and I really wanted champagne to celebrate.
It was so hard to get through these things, and I don't feel any better about myself.
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 2,966
You may not feel better about yourself now,but you will in the future. Does your not feeling good kinda feel like a pouting child that didn't get it's way? That was me when I was newly sober(still tweaking my plan(s) as needed) and hanging around others drinking 'freely'.
Samantha
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Join Date: Sep 2017
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1.5 months is nice.
Bet generally you feel better than when you were boozing... ?
Business meetings dinner and work trips are tough for us all...especially after 1.5 months.
No one needs alcohol to celebrate its just cliché society and tv all that.
Well done on 1.5 months.
We have the same sober time
Bet generally you feel better than when you were boozing... ?
Business meetings dinner and work trips are tough for us all...especially after 1.5 months.
No one needs alcohol to celebrate its just cliché society and tv all that.
Well done on 1.5 months.
We have the same sober time
Samantha
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 2,031
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