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    #1

    BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME :)

    We are alcoholics and it is a horrid name,
    it takes a hell of a lot for any of us to admit it..

    coz it has such a bad mental image and stigma attached..!

    but when we start to get better, we are told we will always be alcoholics till the day we die..

    basically coz there is not another word to call us..

    I personally hate it..

    coz I am proud of what I have done and many of you are the same..

    and many are struggling to get there,

    but it infuriates me that our brand name never changes..

    SO.........

    I have come up with a new name for what I feel I am and we are..
    it is so much more a positive "label" for us I think.....


    ALCOHOLABSENTEE.......??????

    Wot do you reckon..???
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    #2
    BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

    Well the label "Recovering Alcoholic" dosen't agree w/ me either ladyjan!
    Outside of a dog a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read

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      #3
      BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

      Jeasus LJ don't scare me like that, knew you had to do some stuff today and thought they called you that! like what happened to me.
      Good name, just need to learn how to spell it
      Though somehow I can still only adjust to alcoholabuseabsenteer

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        #4
        BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

        How about EXSTUPIDPERSONTHATISSMARTERTHANYOU?????
        I love my family more than alcohol.:h
        Live in the Solution....not the problem

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          #5
          BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

          I would agree that it takes a hell of a lot to admit to being an alcoholic, but doing so started me down the path to a quality sobriety. So, I understand your point completely, but prefer to think of myself as a recovered alcoholic (a label that I am 100% okay with).

          Probably just a lot of semantics, but as Popeye would say "I am what I am...", and it sounds a lot better then 'ex Gordon's [vodka] Guy!"
          Sobriety Date: June 15, 2007 -- "It's not having what you want, It's wanting what you've got...."

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            #6
            BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

            techie;861246 wrote: Well the label "Recovering Alcoholic" dosen't agree w/ me either ladyjan!
            excatly WHY I thought the name ..
            coz recovering means your not there you have not achieved abstinence...in my mind..

            but when we abstain.. which is what we do when we stop..
            there is no word for that..
            there is a difference..

            so alcoholabsentee..

            dunno I just dont like the label alcoholic..........forever.....
            coz it does change
            and we do change
            so the name should change...

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              #7
              BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

              I am a husband, a father, a bother and a son. I dont feel the need for any more labels. 'I dont drink' is all people who ask need to know. We are all entitled to our privacy as in any other aspect of our lives, our relationship with AL is our business. Just my thoughts on it.
              Ethanol is a toxic chemical, why would I drink it?

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                #8
                BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                "I don't drink" is exactly what I was thinking.
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                  #9
                  BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                  KTAB;861261 wrote: I am a husband, a father, a bother and a son. I dont feel the need for any more labels. 'I dont drink' is all people who ask need to know. We are all entitled to our privacy as in any other aspect of our lives, our relationship with AL is our business. Just my thoughts on it.
                  yep good point KT..
                  just it was going thru my nut today as they kept insisting that is what we are and will always be.....

                  dunno..anyway didn't mean as a serious debate or upset anyone ...
                  just my new name for them (social services). for what in my opinion I am....!!

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                    #10
                    BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                    I just re-read my post, many a true word spoken in jest eh, I called myself a 'bother' instead of 'brother' :laughmonkey::laughmonkey::laughmonkey:
                    Ethanol is a toxic chemical, why would I drink it?

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                      #11
                      BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                      ladyjan;861283 wrote:
                      dunno..anyway didn't mean as a serious debate or upset anyone ...just my new name for them(s.s.) for what in my opinion I am....
                      :H:H
                      You just opened a can of worms, I can see this being debated for days

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                        #12
                        BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                        KTAB;861297 wrote: I just re-read my post, many a true word spoken in jest eh, I called myself a 'bother' instead of 'brother' :laughmonkey::laughmonkey::laughmonkey:
                        LMAO!!!!
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                          #13
                          BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                          OH shit...ops:.....
                          gonna keep me gob shut in future...:H
                          wannachange;861298 wrote: :H:H
                          You just opened a can of worms, I can see this being debated for days

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                            #14
                            BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                            This thread is like "a band of bothers"
                            Outside of a dog a book is mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read

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                              #15
                              BRANDED AN ALCOHOLIC FOR LIFE.NEW NAME

                              I like the I don't drink option.

                              Not...

                              I cannot drink
                              I dare not drink
                              I gave up drink
                              I am "off" the drink
                              I am unable to drink


                              Simply "I do not drink" will suffice for me....and it's the truth to boot!
                              "It's not your job to like me, it's mine!"

                              AF 10th May 2010
                              NF 12th May 2010

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