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Hi and welcome TwinOtterFan 
This is a great place for support - I think you'll like it here.
If you're here about an alcoholic or addict in your life, we also have Friends and Family forums you might want to look at as well
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/#friends-family
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This is a great place for support - I think you'll like it here.
If you're here about an alcoholic or addict in your life, we also have Friends and Family forums you might want to look at as well
https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/#friends-family
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: SF Bay area, CA
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Welcome to the family TOF. Lots of support here, and the friends and family forums are very helpful too.
The nice thing about SR is that it's always open. There's always someone here, any time of day or night. We have members all over the world so there's always people online. You can get support any time you need it. 
Lots of support here, and the friends and family forums are very helpful too.The nice thing about SR is that it's always open.
There's always someone here, any time of day or night. We have members all over the world so there's always people online. You can get support any time you need it. 
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Join Date: Jan 2014
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hi TwinOtterFan.... love the name. My wife and I found one another because of twin otters.
Welcome to SoberRecovery and the Newcomer's forum.
Would you care to share a little more about what brought you here?
It's a wonderful, caring, resource-rich and supportive community. Glad to have you join us.
Welcome to SoberRecovery and the Newcomer's forum.
Would you care to share a little more about what brought you here?
It's a wonderful, caring, resource-rich and supportive community. Glad to have you join us.
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Join Date: Dec 2020
Posts: 6
Thank you everyone for great welcome,
Sorry for the delay, in responding. What brought me here? I guess desperation. My wife is an alcoholic, she was attending AA years ago but stopped before I met her. We have been together for 6 years married one child, in those 6 years she has been to rehab once and maybe 25 meetings, she hates them, hasn't gone in quite some time.
I'm not here for her, I know better than that. I came for me, I have been operating as a single parent for years, but lately I am finding it much much harder, we recently moved and I have started attending a local Al-anon group, it is so nice to see people who have so much strength after addiction. But my growing concern is they are all after addiction, they have all left their spouse and have turned their lives around, it twice as heartbreaking to me, they are happy in their new lives which I want, but they are no longer with their spouse, which is something I do not want. I love my wife, but she is slowly destroying our marriage and me.
I have been managing this for years but I am starting to fail,
Sorry for the delay, in responding. What brought me here? I guess desperation. My wife is an alcoholic, she was attending AA years ago but stopped before I met her. We have been together for 6 years married one child, in those 6 years she has been to rehab once and maybe 25 meetings, she hates them, hasn't gone in quite some time.
I'm not here for her, I know better than that. I came for me, I have been operating as a single parent for years, but lately I am finding it much much harder, we recently moved and I have started attending a local Al-anon group, it is so nice to see people who have so much strength after addiction. But my growing concern is they are all after addiction, they have all left their spouse and have turned their lives around, it twice as heartbreaking to me, they are happy in their new lives which I want, but they are no longer with their spouse, which is something I do not want. I love my wife, but she is slowly destroying our marriage and me.
I have been managing this for years but I am starting to fail,
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Join Date: Dec 2020
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Originally Posted by TwinOtterFan 
Thank you everyone for great welcome,
Sorry for the delay, in responding. What brought me here? I guess desperation. My wife is an alcoholic, she was attending AA years ago but stopped before I met her. We have been together for 6 years married one child, in those 6 years she has been to rehab once and maybe 25 meetings, she hates them, hasn't gone in quite some time.
I'm not here for her, I know better than that. I came for me, I have been operating as a single parent for years, but lately I am finding it much much harder, we recently moved and I have started attending a local Al-anon group, it is so nice to see people who have so much strength after addiction. But my growing concern is they are all after addiction, they have all left their spouse and have turned their lives around, it twice as heartbreaking to me, they are happy in their new lives which I want, but they are no longer with their spouse, which is something I do not want. I love my wife, but she is slowly destroying our marriage and me.
I have been managing this for years but I am starting to fail,
Sorry for the delay, in responding. What brought me here? I guess desperation. My wife is an alcoholic, she was attending AA years ago but stopped before I met her. We have been together for 6 years married one child, in those 6 years she has been to rehab once and maybe 25 meetings, she hates them, hasn't gone in quite some time.
I'm not here for her, I know better than that. I came for me, I have been operating as a single parent for years, but lately I am finding it much much harder, we recently moved and I have started attending a local Al-anon group, it is so nice to see people who have so much strength after addiction. But my growing concern is they are all after addiction, they have all left their spouse and have turned their lives around, it twice as heartbreaking to me, they are happy in their new lives which I want, but they are no longer with their spouse, which is something I do not want. I love my wife, but she is slowly destroying our marriage and me.
I have been managing this for years but I am starting to fail,
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