I love my wine

[chefette]

I love my wine

HOW DO I PM SOMEBODY

[chefette]

I love my wine

SATORI. AND MISS OCTOBER. THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR ME.
I AM REALLY STRUGELLING RIGHT NOW. I AM NOT SLEEPING VERY WELL. MY PARTNER THINKS ITS BECAUSE I AM DRUNK. BUT I COULD REALLY DO WITH A GOODS NIGHTS SLEEP. A MESSAGE TO HIM WOULD BE GOOD RIGHT NOW, I DO,NT THINK HE REALISES HOW HARD I AM TRYING RIGHT NOW.

[Nicole2003]

I love my wine

Hi Miss October, your story sounds so familiar. I love wine with good food too but tend to stop when I've finished the bottle rather than just a couple of glasses! And I definately have a glass while cooking too. I am aiming for alcohol free during the week but find I binging more at the weekend as a result. I really need to just quit as I know I just don't have the contol to moderate properly.

Chefette, just keep trying as best you can. That's all you can do. And keep coming here for plenty of support. The way I look at it is every alcohol free day is an achievement.

Nicole x

[chefette]

I love my wine

MISS OCTOBER THANK U FOR YOUR HELP. U WILL BE A GOOD FRIEND TO ME I HOPE

[chefette]

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SARTORI.

I DID,NT REALISE U WERE FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS. NOT GOING TO ASK TOO MANY QUESTIONS. BUT IN GENERAL HOW FAR FROM ME ARE U. I AM NEXT TO THE BORDER. AND BY THE WAY IS THAT REALLY U IN THE PHOTO?

[chefette]

I love my wine

NICOLE2003 THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT. NICE TO HEAR FROM A FELLOW BRIT. OR NOT

[HopefulNow]

I love my wine

Hey, All.

Wow. Once again, reading the MWO posts is like holding up a mirror. That's ME. And that's ME, too! And so is THAT!

All of us are here for the same reason when you get right down to it, and interestingly, so many of our stories of how we've landed here are so very similar.

It's certainly good to finally know we aren't "alone," isn't it?

I know, I know. There ain't no "magic bullet." But MWO definitely feels like a mighty powerful weapon in the old arsenal for being the very best "WE" we can be.

Thanks, again, to all of you, and welcome and howdy to the people I've not "met" yet.

-HopefulNow

[vino_grrl]

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reading these posts is EXACTLY like looking into a mirror. and so strangely comforting. someone wrote earlier in this thread that they thought they were the only one sitting home alone in their nice house drinking themselves silly. it really feels that way when you're doing it, doesn't it?

like the rest of you on this thread seem to be (the title drew me in) i'm a bottle of wine a night gal. what cracks me up is that it took more than a year of this for me to realize that it was actually a problem. it didn't FEEL like a problem at first. it felt great! ;-) and it still feels great while i'm doing it. it's just the next day that it doesn't feel so hot. or in the middle of the night when i'm wide awake after all the alcohol is digested and can't get back to sleep. i've been at this 'bottle a night' ... sometimes more, sometimes (but rarely) less thing for about 3 yrs now. last year, i had to have some tests for an unrelated health problem that came up and the test noted that i had an enlarged liver. i was horrified! my doctor said it was an uncommon but not totally unexpected side effect of the type of infection i had. i couldn't bring myself to tell him 'um ... or it could be because i drink a bottle of wine a night and i'm a 5'2 woman.'

the 'unexplained bruises' thing just came up in a huge way on halloween. i had a party here for my daughter's friends and their parents. i kept it together admirably during the party (only had two). we all went out to trick or treat. then came home. cleaned up. got the kiddo to bed. drank another bottle and a half after i put her down! woke up the next morning with the most heinous, gargantuan bruise on the back of my left arm and no idea how it got there. really ghastly & deep & painful. i was asked about it multiple times @ the gym and, of course, lied ('oh ... took a bad fall last night!') and that's one of the things i'm most eager to leave behind. i lie to my nanny who helps me with my daughter ('oh ... we had a houseload of people over last night' to explain the 4 empty wine bottles in the bin on monday that collected since she left on thursday. um. no. no one was over. i went out and drank with friends and the four bottles are what i drank @ home). the having a glass of wine before going to have a glass of wine with someone (that way, i won't be so anxious to pour the second so much more quickly than they will). and, even more embarrassing, the SNEAKING (the first time i found myself pouring myself a little extra when no one else was looking in such a sneaky way because i was worried it would all be gone before i could get more i was utterly humiliated inside).

and, like someone else mentioned, i have a CHILD here to care for! so far, nothing bad has happened. so far, everyone else seems to think of me as a very high functioning, wonderful parent. but i live in terror of having one too many only to have her hurt herself late night or have a medical emergency, with me too out of it to do for her what a parent should.

i started the topa today. please oh please say it will make this go away.

vino_grrrl

(ps ... why do you suppose i only crave wine? there can be a bottle of vodka in the house, beer in the fridge, etc., and they can stay there for ages. but red, red wine .... oy. not a chance).

[chefette]

I love my wine

that sounds just like me too. in fact we all sound so similar. i have to go to a boring meeting tonight. i would usually have had a couple of glasses before hand but tonight i will stick to the tea and biscuits that are on offer.

[Nicole2003]

I love my wine

Yep, I'm exactly the same. I have gin, whiskey, brandy etc etc in my drinks cuoboard and am not remotely tempted. Also have a bottle of wine sitting in the kitchen and had a huge fight with myself tonight not to open it! it's only wine I seem to crave. Anyway, I had a bar of chocolate instead and the craving has passed for now. Only day 3 AF.

Nicole x

[Miss October]

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Hi Vino__Grrl,

Yes, it is comforting to find someone to talk to who understands exactly what you are going through. That's what this is all about. I had 3 AF days last week since I'm joined, and I'm looking for more this week. With Thanksgiving coming up, I'll be thankful for as many AF's as I can handle this week. Wish you lots of luck on the Topa.

Miss October

[shedot]

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Miss O,

You sound soooo much like me execpt my drink of choice is vodka. I start the drink and don;t stop. The good news is that I'm 100 or so days sober now and just have to deal with anxiety not sure which is wore trying to quie the drink or quit the anxitey. But hang int here and you'll be OK. Stik with the mesage boards and the sups do what they tell you and you can live AF if that is what yo so choose to do.

[Fresh Hope]

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I am sitting in my nice house and not drinking! going to yoga soon and then hopefully I will be too tired to drink If I am tired all I want is to go to sleep. Please let me be AF today...thanks for all your posts I am all of you in so many ways...I have a teenager with a drinking problem maybe I can do this for her to emulate.

[HopefulNow]

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Vino_Girl and others,

Yep. The wine. The red, red wine. That's what I can't seem to leave alone. I enjoy the occasional beer. Sometimes a vodka drink in warmer months, or a nice single malt scotch in cooler months. But those I can moderate oh-so-easily. One or two, TOPS, and I'm done.

But the red wine beckons like a siren.

Yet, here's something interesting (to me, anyway). A couple Christmases ago, we were given two VERY nice bottles of red wine that are meant to sit for a period of time before being really and truly at their prime and ready to drink (in the opinion of true wine afficiandos, I reckon). One for 3 or so years, one for a couple more.

They sit in plain view in my wine rack. But even when I'm fresh out of my beloved beverage, it never even occurs to me to uncork one of those.

Wonder what THAT'S all about? Anyway, I'm glad I haven't. I'd be furious at myself for robbing my husband (and myself...if I reach that fabled moderation point down the road) of that special treat from a special friend, meant to be enjoyed for a future celebration.

-HopefulNow

[tiger]

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Wine Guzzler

Hi miss October
I am the same way....I always say I will have just 2 glasses,and then I just keep filiing up the glass until the whole bottle is gone!!! Then I get in the car and go get more...
Stuck in the bottle