Hi All,
I'm sending this from my phone so I'm hoping predictive text doesn't have a funny 5 minutes.
I just wanted to share something with you. My life is in bits at the moment. And I'm struggling so badly. I'm hardly living at home as my marriage is in pieces. If we can't work our way through it, it means losing my businesses and what feels like my future, ie my retirement plans with my husband. I've been diagnosed as on the verge of a breakdown with all the stress I'm under.
But the most important thing I just wanted to say is I'm still sober. 3 years sober. And through all the rows, the heartache and tears, the living away from home, I still haven't had a drink. Because if I do, it really will be game over. And I really will lose everything.
But whilst I'm sober, I still have a fighting chance of saving my marriage and my future. And I can face each day knowing that i got through yesterday sober. And I will not drink today, no matter how bad it is. It would of so god damn easy to of used it as an excuse to pick up a drink. But who would I be kidding? My problems would still be there in the morning and I would be.....
Well I don't need to explain, but I'd soon be back in the depths of drunken hell.
I've made 3 years by not drinking 'at my day' wether it be a good day or a bad day. Or drinking 'at my husband' because we've had another row over his son. There is no day I can drink. I accept that. I also accept that I am to never listen to the AL voices in my head. Hang in there, they really do curl up and wither when you ignore them.
No matter how bad my life is, drinking 'at it' will only make it so much more worse.
My sobriety is the only thing I have control of in my chaotic life. And it is so precious to me, as without it I have nothing.
So please, if you are trying to quit, just keep putting one foot in front of the other, get through one hour at a time, one day, one week. It's really does start to build up.
There is never a good enough reason to drink 'at something' just because it's been really awful and you're hurting. I've had a squillion reasons to drink in the last 18 months. But what would that of achieved. I certainly don't need any of the extras that come free with being a horrendous drunk!
So I'm guess I'm trying to say, is that No matter how dark things seem, drinking will only heap more hell onto it. And the only way to keep going, is to go to bed sober and grateful, for surviving another day. Not matter what it's thrown at you.
Please don't ever quit quitting.
I'm sending this from my phone so I'm hoping predictive text doesn't have a funny 5 minutes.
I just wanted to share something with you. My life is in bits at the moment. And I'm struggling so badly. I'm hardly living at home as my marriage is in pieces. If we can't work our way through it, it means losing my businesses and what feels like my future, ie my retirement plans with my husband. I've been diagnosed as on the verge of a breakdown with all the stress I'm under.
But the most important thing I just wanted to say is I'm still sober. 3 years sober. And through all the rows, the heartache and tears, the living away from home, I still haven't had a drink. Because if I do, it really will be game over. And I really will lose everything.
But whilst I'm sober, I still have a fighting chance of saving my marriage and my future. And I can face each day knowing that i got through yesterday sober. And I will not drink today, no matter how bad it is. It would of so god damn easy to of used it as an excuse to pick up a drink. But who would I be kidding? My problems would still be there in the morning and I would be.....
Well I don't need to explain, but I'd soon be back in the depths of drunken hell.
I've made 3 years by not drinking 'at my day' wether it be a good day or a bad day. Or drinking 'at my husband' because we've had another row over his son. There is no day I can drink. I accept that. I also accept that I am to never listen to the AL voices in my head. Hang in there, they really do curl up and wither when you ignore them.
No matter how bad my life is, drinking 'at it' will only make it so much more worse.
My sobriety is the only thing I have control of in my chaotic life. And it is so precious to me, as without it I have nothing.
So please, if you are trying to quit, just keep putting one foot in front of the other, get through one hour at a time, one day, one week. It's really does start to build up.
There is never a good enough reason to drink 'at something' just because it's been really awful and you're hurting. I've had a squillion reasons to drink in the last 18 months. But what would that of achieved. I certainly don't need any of the extras that come free with being a horrendous drunk!
So I'm guess I'm trying to say, is that No matter how dark things seem, drinking will only heap more hell onto it. And the only way to keep going, is to go to bed sober and grateful, for surviving another day. Not matter what it's thrown at you.
Please don't ever quit quitting.
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