I am assuming that we are all here because in a rare lucid moment we realized that our drinking was out of control or heading there.
We are at many different stages of recovery and believe me, after 25 years of alcohol abuse I am well qualified to speak on the subject and I am also qualified to speak about the success of my recovery, even if I have only obtained 250 days so far. I am in for the long haul.
The only reason I am still posting in this nut house forum is that I know there are minions of lurkers who are still suffering; who have lost all hope and need to hear that recovery is possible. I actually have a life other than MWO; a busy, crazy life like so many of you. I have made friends on this forum who will hopefully share my life?s journey for a long time to come.
After 3 years on MWO I can say with absolute certainty that nobody has ever been put down, admonished or given a hard time because they started to drink again or fell of the wagon. The support here is legend and if you apply yourself and actually use all the tools you might surprise yourself and succeed in the end. No yardstick is applied to measure your success or the time it takes. If you can moderate successfully, then more power to you ? I could not!
Time and time again a number of dedicated, intelligent and hard working members on this forum are being singled out and subjected to verbal abuse and insults. For this very reason we have lost so many wonderful souls over the last 3 years, it really breaks my heart. Instead of showing gratitude for some members tireless research that is so generously shared on the forum, I hear juvenile school yard whining and bickering. Where are we? In a sandbox? For Gods sake, grow up. If you cannot bear to see someone else?s success then just shut up for the sake of hopeful newcomers. We don?t flaunt our sobriety we share the fact that it is a very real possibility. If you don?t wish to better your life then there are excellent forums that elaborately discuss the virtue of one vintage over another.
Let me remind you that RJ created this place in order to help alcoholics to regain a normal life. If you get to socialize while coming here then that is a bonus.
If you feel that this is not the forum for you then just leave and don?t make a production out of it, but let me wish you luck in finding another site that offers so much love and caring.
As for the newcomer with one single solitary post ? where did you get your Information? Try to earn your badge by reading, posting and participating before you sling mud our way.
It takes a very long time for me to loose my cool and right now I am madder than hell, but I don?t want to loose more members whom I value for their intelligent, compassionate contribution. Shape up or shut up!
We are at many different stages of recovery and believe me, after 25 years of alcohol abuse I am well qualified to speak on the subject and I am also qualified to speak about the success of my recovery, even if I have only obtained 250 days so far. I am in for the long haul.
The only reason I am still posting in this nut house forum is that I know there are minions of lurkers who are still suffering; who have lost all hope and need to hear that recovery is possible. I actually have a life other than MWO; a busy, crazy life like so many of you. I have made friends on this forum who will hopefully share my life?s journey for a long time to come.
After 3 years on MWO I can say with absolute certainty that nobody has ever been put down, admonished or given a hard time because they started to drink again or fell of the wagon. The support here is legend and if you apply yourself and actually use all the tools you might surprise yourself and succeed in the end. No yardstick is applied to measure your success or the time it takes. If you can moderate successfully, then more power to you ? I could not!
Time and time again a number of dedicated, intelligent and hard working members on this forum are being singled out and subjected to verbal abuse and insults. For this very reason we have lost so many wonderful souls over the last 3 years, it really breaks my heart. Instead of showing gratitude for some members tireless research that is so generously shared on the forum, I hear juvenile school yard whining and bickering. Where are we? In a sandbox? For Gods sake, grow up. If you cannot bear to see someone else?s success then just shut up for the sake of hopeful newcomers. We don?t flaunt our sobriety we share the fact that it is a very real possibility. If you don?t wish to better your life then there are excellent forums that elaborately discuss the virtue of one vintage over another.
Let me remind you that RJ created this place in order to help alcoholics to regain a normal life. If you get to socialize while coming here then that is a bonus.
If you feel that this is not the forum for you then just leave and don?t make a production out of it, but let me wish you luck in finding another site that offers so much love and caring.
As for the newcomer with one single solitary post ? where did you get your Information? Try to earn your badge by reading, posting and participating before you sling mud our way.
It takes a very long time for me to loose my cool and right now I am madder than hell, but I don?t want to loose more members whom I value for their intelligent, compassionate contribution. Shape up or shut up!
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