Dee74

Hi and welcome UhOh - Drink took me to many awful place and made me into someone I didn't recognise too.

If work stress is a factor then it's time to face that issue and find some real solutions - drinking just deals with the symptoms not the problem, and it doesn't even do that very effectively.

Have you spoken to anyone about your work stress - colleagues, bosses, or a doctor or counsellor maybe?

I think you need to accept its not just a work problem too tho - passing out on the kitchen floor, hiding drinking and raiding piggybanks means its a home problem too, yeah?

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Ghostlight1

Believe me, you haven't heard it all. Stealing out of your child's bank was a new one for me.
You've never heard it all. How about drinking mouthwash? I did that.
The levels of depravity I hit made me do things that I'm ashamed to tell anyone. But I do, thinking it may help someone who was reaching bottom or felt they were alone in their experiences and actions.
Keep drinking. You'll have more stories to tell.
I drank for thirty five years alcohcoholicly. And I still have yet to hear something that surprises me of the levels of depravity we reach.
I lost it all. And you can, too. As far as the yets go.

My advice would be to do whatever it takes to stop.
It's the job? Get a new one. Whatever it takes.
You are not yet at the bottom. The wife and kids are still there. You haven't lost them. Yet.

UhOh

Guener

UhOh, you are walking along a precipice, a short step away from one disaster that will make things worse than just feeling like one. I was kicked out by my fiance for engaging in behaviors like yours, landed in homeless shelters, lost the person I loved. Even my love for her couldn't stop me, and I caused a lot of harm to her in the process. Don't go down the road of waiting until it's too late to do anything but quit because you have no choice, but that fulcrum is ahead of you without a doubt when you continue drinking.