Hi folks,
just found this site and I have been reading some of the posts. I get a very clear message abotu the goodness of this community, and teh help I hope is here.
As for me; I know that I have to serioulsy curtail my drinking as i am sure it is affecting me in all sorts of ways. i hope my health is okay but the amount of booze- mostly wine but after i've had a few i am not particular! that I get through most days can't be good for my liver, my skin, my weight, my stomach and my brain! let alone what it is doing to my ability to do a demanding job effctively and most of all to look after my family.
But I am grown up - nealy 50_ enough to know that it is in the end down to me; i don't want to stop drinnking but I do want to stop drinking so much. when i am away from home it is not a problem- i can go a coupel of weeks- or all the time I am away without feeling any craving or even mild desire; so i hope i am not addicted. Maybe I am fooling myself on that as well.
But at home, its the habit. Gettign home from work,,opening the fridge, opening the wine, making dinner, relaxing, all with a glass nearby. And i am gettign so fat i am sure my husband is finding me increasingly unattractive; it can't be nice being with someone who is drunk every night either. he is very good and i adore him but i do notiec sometimes that he gets fed up. who can blame him.
i have so much that is so very positive in my life- i have been so lucky; i have will power and ambition, fro all sorts of things but this doesn't seem to matter, because i suppose, in reality i really don't believe in myself about this at all.
So folks, what i am really saying, i suppose, is that i know that i haev to do it by myself; that all the tricks and pills in the world can't work unless i give it the climate to succeed. So I know that , but all the same, if its out there, some help would be very very very good.
:new:
Must try harder x
just found this site and I have been reading some of the posts. I get a very clear message abotu the goodness of this community, and teh help I hope is here.
As for me; I know that I have to serioulsy curtail my drinking as i am sure it is affecting me in all sorts of ways. i hope my health is okay but the amount of booze- mostly wine but after i've had a few i am not particular! that I get through most days can't be good for my liver, my skin, my weight, my stomach and my brain! let alone what it is doing to my ability to do a demanding job effctively and most of all to look after my family.
But I am grown up - nealy 50_ enough to know that it is in the end down to me; i don't want to stop drinnking but I do want to stop drinking so much. when i am away from home it is not a problem- i can go a coupel of weeks- or all the time I am away without feeling any craving or even mild desire; so i hope i am not addicted. Maybe I am fooling myself on that as well.
But at home, its the habit. Gettign home from work,,opening the fridge, opening the wine, making dinner, relaxing, all with a glass nearby. And i am gettign so fat i am sure my husband is finding me increasingly unattractive; it can't be nice being with someone who is drunk every night either. he is very good and i adore him but i do notiec sometimes that he gets fed up. who can blame him.
i have so much that is so very positive in my life- i have been so lucky; i have will power and ambition, fro all sorts of things but this doesn't seem to matter, because i suppose, in reality i really don't believe in myself about this at all.
So folks, what i am really saying, i suppose, is that i know that i haev to do it by myself; that all the tricks and pills in the world can't work unless i give it the climate to succeed. So I know that , but all the same, if its out there, some help would be very very very good.
:new:
Must try harder x
and all good luck to you. Keep reading and posting and I look forward to gearing how you're doing. Do you want to cut down or 'go' AF (alcohol free)? 
c: :heart:
... the husband becoming unattracted (actually it was really me who was becoming unattractive), anyway. it is something you have to DECIDE, but you don't have to do it alone. Dinking and the battle with the drinking, the back and forth struggle is something we do alone, THIS battle to quit is something we are doing together - HERE. I have found it unbelievably helpful and I don't think my head would be where it is today without it. Stick around, read some of the old posts.. spill you r heart out as much as you can. Tell your story - we will listen. There are also a lot of supplements and meds that help, too, if you so choose. So, you don't have to go this alone.
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