Dear All,
Have been hanging around here for about a year, I think. Still drinking and still sick of it. Taking the "easy" way out (though continuing drinking is certainly not really the easy way) and have decided to try to quit in January after all the holiday social committments. In the meantime, I am gaining strength and resolution by reading all of your threads. I would like to make a proposal and see what you all think.
A little bit about me first: I am 56, about 25-30 lbs overweight, belly fat, out of shape, puffy face, little energy, fight depression, drinking for about the last 35 years, have been thinking I should quit for quite a while, two adult children that drink more than they should (thanks to my example, I think) and strongly desiring to be alcohol free for the rest of my life......to live on a CONTINUOUS and EVERLASTING, NOT TO SLIP UP basis the joyful life that I have experienced the times that I have managed to quit and the life that all of you describe.
My proposal is this: that we gals in our 50's have our own thread. Not that we do not absolutely love and cherish, learn from and are supported by other friends in other threads. But in reading many threads it seems that we ladies in our 50's , and there seem to be quite a few of us, seem to have so much in common. We seem to be so concious of the fact that alcohol keeps us from being as attractive that we could still be at our age, that our aging bodies and minds are having a hard enough time "keeping up" just on their own and that we are realizing that alcohol is absolutely devastating both, some of us are saddened with regrets of how our drinking has affected our children, our marriages, our relationships. I just think that having a thread with girlfriends that I know are just where I am might be a very good thing (that sounded very Martha Stewart, didn't it?)
What do y'all think? Would there be enough of us who are interested?
Have been hanging around here for about a year, I think. Still drinking and still sick of it. Taking the "easy" way out (though continuing drinking is certainly not really the easy way) and have decided to try to quit in January after all the holiday social committments. In the meantime, I am gaining strength and resolution by reading all of your threads. I would like to make a proposal and see what you all think.
A little bit about me first: I am 56, about 25-30 lbs overweight, belly fat, out of shape, puffy face, little energy, fight depression, drinking for about the last 35 years, have been thinking I should quit for quite a while, two adult children that drink more than they should (thanks to my example, I think) and strongly desiring to be alcohol free for the rest of my life......to live on a CONTINUOUS and EVERLASTING, NOT TO SLIP UP basis the joyful life that I have experienced the times that I have managed to quit and the life that all of you describe.
My proposal is this: that we gals in our 50's have our own thread. Not that we do not absolutely love and cherish, learn from and are supported by other friends in other threads. But in reading many threads it seems that we ladies in our 50's , and there seem to be quite a few of us, seem to have so much in common. We seem to be so concious of the fact that alcohol keeps us from being as attractive that we could still be at our age, that our aging bodies and minds are having a hard enough time "keeping up" just on their own and that we are realizing that alcohol is absolutely devastating both, some of us are saddened with regrets of how our drinking has affected our children, our marriages, our relationships. I just think that having a thread with girlfriends that I know are just where I am might be a very good thing (that sounded very Martha Stewart, didn't it?)
What do y'all think? Would there be enough of us who are interested?
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