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During my cups I would make all sort of promises to the wife saying I was trying to give the grog away. The normal stuff, not drinking beer/wine/scotch/brandy the list goes on to only drink beer/wine/scotch/brandy the list goes on.
I will take up sport that will stop me..
I will work harder and that will not leave enough time to drink.
And the excuses went on. And I bet many if not all of you could add another million to this list.
The truth for me at the time was I did not want to stop drinking, I could justify why I wanted and how I knew I could stop but I never took the hard steps to actually make the changes to put the grog down for good.
At the time my truth was I wanted to drink I did not know how to not drink I believed everything in the world centered around drink. To not drink would end my life in that it gave meaning to my life, without it I had no meaning.
To be sober presented a whole lot of fears, fears that I honestly believed would be the ruination of my life.
It was not till I faced these fears and was honest about my drinking that the little changes started. And as I shone the light of the fears and the fears disappeared that I realised my life did not lay in the bottom of a glass but in the bosom of my family.
Me alone had to be willing, courageous, honest and actions to become and stay sober. Not easy but possible, an arduous journey filled with much joy.
Just some more G8 waffling.
I will take up sport that will stop me..
I will work harder and that will not leave enough time to drink.
And the excuses went on. And I bet many if not all of you could add another million to this list.
The truth for me at the time was I did not want to stop drinking, I could justify why I wanted and how I knew I could stop but I never took the hard steps to actually make the changes to put the grog down for good.
At the time my truth was I wanted to drink I did not know how to not drink I believed everything in the world centered around drink. To not drink would end my life in that it gave meaning to my life, without it I had no meaning.
To be sober presented a whole lot of fears, fears that I honestly believed would be the ruination of my life.
It was not till I faced these fears and was honest about my drinking that the little changes started. And as I shone the light of the fears and the fears disappeared that I realised my life did not lay in the bottom of a glass but in the bosom of my family.
Me alone had to be willing, courageous, honest and actions to become and stay sober. Not easy but possible, an arduous journey filled with much joy.
Just some more G8 waffling.
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
I had a fear of the unknown. What was life going to be like, not having a beer with the boys after work? Will they still except me? If I stop, where will I hide? I won't be able to hide behind that bottle anymore.
It petrified me and that's why I let it go until my life got so bad, I had no other option but to quit.
That was when I went to detox through the ER. Ever since that fateful day, my life has been a series of miracles.
God Bless!
I too...made promises to my kids their whole lifes.
Only for me...my 8 years of sobriety brought me pain, after pain after pain. I don't know why...at the time I was practicing the program...(which is now I have a discord toward the whole thing of AA).
But ya know...maybe that 8 years was not my time. The one thing it did bring me was a longer life because I wouldn't have been alive right now if I didn't have that abstinence for that 8 years.
I needed vodka like others needed air. This is what my pickled brain told me. And I believed it. It wasn't until my fear of the known became greater than my fear of the unknown that I became willing to do whatever I had to do to stay sober.
The 12 Steps are what introduced me to me. They say nothing worthwhile comes easily. But living by the principles of AA was much easier than getting drunk every night.
Thanks for the topic G8.