Life after alcohol
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While attending marriage counseling last year with my wife it was quickly revealed that alcohol was effecting our marriage. Go figure! And I thought I was the master of deception: I wouldn't be drunk until my wife went to bed and there weren't too many occasions where I passed out during the day on the weekend. I guess I should've remembered the time when I woke up at 7 PM on a Sunday and started to get ready for work thinking it was 7 AM on Monday. More sadly was having my young kids see me passed out on the couch. There were clearly more problems than I had thought. Back to the purpose of the post.....During one of our sessions, the counselor, who was a recovering alocoholic herself, urged me to go to AA. I chose a different recovery path, but I remember her telling me that there was life after alcohol. At the time, this was contrary to everything I believed. My life revolved around alcohol and I was an advocate for renaming beer and wine to "fun" and "more fun". I could never imagine having fun being sober. Looking back, being sober for me was recovering from hangovers and counting the minutes until my next drink. Now 7 days after being sober with many more lessons to learn, I am begining to see life without alcohol as enjoyable. I'm starting to reconnect with my old self and am enjoying things I used to. My mind and body are on overload trying to find things to occupy them.....healthy endeavors such as reading, jogging, or spending quality time with my family. I now know that she was right and I am more excited than ever to see what more sobriety will bring. I know that I may appear to have a sense of blind optimism after only a week, but I thought that other people who are thinking about quiting should know that there is life after alcohol. I'm committed to continuing this journey and really find a lot of strength in reading all of the information on this website.
Fight on!
Time Out
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While attending marriage counseling last year with my wife it was quickly revealed that alcohol was effecting our marriage. Go figure! And I thought I was the master of deception: I wouldn't be drunk until my wife went to bed and there weren't too many occasions where I passed out during the day on the weekend. I guess I should've remembered the time when I woke up at 7 PM on a Sunday and started to get ready for work thinking it was 7 AM on Monday. More sadly was having my young kids see me passed out on the couch. There were clearly more problems than I had thought. Back to the purpose of the post.....During one of our sessions, the counselor, who was a recovering alocoholic herself, urged me to go to AA. I chose a different recovery path, but I remember her telling me that there was life after alcohol. At the time, this was contrary to everything I believed. My life revolved around alcohol and I was an advocate for renaming beer and wine to "fun" and "more fun". I could never imagine having fun being sober. Looking back, being sober for me was recovering from hangovers and counting the minutes until my next drink. Now 7 days after being sober with many more lessons to learn, I am begining to see life without alcohol as enjoyable. I'm starting to reconnect with my old self and am enjoying things I used to. My mind and body are on overload trying to find things to occupy them.....healthy endeavors such as reading, jogging, or spending quality time with my family. I now know that she was right and I am more excited than ever to see what more sobriety will bring. I know that I may appear to have a sense of blind optimism after only a week, but I thought that other people who are thinking about quiting should know that there is life after alcohol. I'm committed to continuing this journey and really find a lot of strength in reading all of the information on this website.
Fight on!
Time Out
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