Hi all, thank you all for your comments and joing the Alcohol
Help Center. I learn something from each posting and that is
what keeps me motivated to continue working my goals. I am on Day 26 of sobriety. And it has not been easy, but then I think if I drink because of these thorny situations arise in front of me, then I will
just have to begin this journey all over again. The cravings are coming less and less. But my downfall is a nice glass of red wine.
I have been to two events in the past week where drinking was a part of it. Just seeing the person next to me enjoying a nice Cabernet
is mind-consuming. But I made the committment to not drink "Just for this Day" and that put me back in perspective.
It is getting a tad easier to be around alcohol, but I am so new to being sober, that there always is a bad thought of drinking that invades my brain. I have been fortunate that I am with a non-drinking person or persons that encourage me to keep up the good job and several have even said they are so proud of me. BECAUSE I DO have
a drinking problem and one drink will never be enough. Reading articles on alcoholism, prayer, AA meetings have been soooo helpful.
And the greater news is my husband and soul mate of 23 years has made a choice not to drink. I have no idea if it will stick, but I understand that this is his life and he, as I learned in AA, has to "write" his on life's story. Just as we all do. Every success, every failure is part of our life story for us to look back on and learn from it.
I hope that all of you are doing well. And if there was a slip,
find something you learned from the incident and vow to do better the
next time.
