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[mamatee]

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Loved to drink alone and then smoke too (there was also a time I liked to eat alone also...). Somehow I felt less guilty if I was the only one who knew.

[anemone]

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Absolutely. I don't want to go anywhere or do anything. It interferes with my drinking. Cleaning house is also a great coverup, as is cooking. You can always explain that you were doing something wonderfully productive, not drinking yourself silly. And I also have profound thoughts, and occasionally call people, but that can be dangerous because they might realize you are drinking. Anemone

[Popeye]

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Nattie
Jules posted a thread on General
called 'check out the counter'.
I clicked on that conter and up popped the website. just click on mine....I think.
I just followed the instructions and Bingo.
Then add it to your signature.

[Arial]

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I drank out, but moderately - drinking in and on my own was my downfall - have also lost friends and offended people when calling drunk - one person I called the following day to apologise to was very forgiving but said that what saddened him was that I hadn't made a word of sense the whole 'conversation'. Another was a childhood friend I was swearing at and yet another was a colleague of my ex-husband - he texted my ex to say what a surprise to hear from me - I hadn't even remembered calling him - and this was all one night ... This is definitely one on my list of 'gut-turning memories' to remind me of why I can't drink.

So count me in on the 'loved to drink alone' group - I just hope I can keep it in the past tense.

[angela31uk]

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That's so true... I've had countless converations where I thought I was totally with it....

But can't recall a thing the next day

[Bluebell]

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OMG! I just read this and was transported back to gut churning horrible memories.

I NEVER EVER want to go back there.

[nancy]

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solo boozer

I also have a lot of experience drinking alone for a few reasons-- to ease loneliness and also to drink without offending people... but the phonecalls ruin that last bit.

It is really horrible!

[Deniselb]

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I can relate all too well...

Unfortunately a bottle or 2 of wine and an evening home alone was my favorite pass time, how sad was that!

[sami]

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mojomuppet;112356 wrote: i am the queen of drinking alone. i will not answer the door, i will not pick up the phone, and dammit if you are a family member that happens to have a key to my house, yours better be burned to the ground if your standing in mine. i also begin to think that noone sees the world like i do, people are not worth my time, im better because i understand things that others dont....any of this sound familar?

this is the only time i have ever actually told anyone this. i think i just lost 20 pounds.

(Pretend I know how to quote something someone else has said, and I'm quoting what mojomuppet says about being the queen of drinking alone and no one understands the world like she does and no one had better bother her while she's drinking alone, and this is the first time she's every told anyone this, etc) Whew! How is it that we have felt for so long that we were the ONLY ones who felt that way?
And checking call records to see who you had called...and looking for notes if you had answered the phone, b/c if you hadn't taken notes, you'd have no way in hell of recalling what the conversation was about......and even if you'd read several chapters in a book, you'd have to re-read them all the next day, b/c of course you'd have no recollection whatsoever of what you'd read.....and finding crumbs and empty containers of things you'd eating and vaguely remembering eating it and thinking "shit! that's why I keep gaining weight!".......and thinking that you were dying (and almost hoping that you did b/c feeling that you are so despicable and such a failure that the world would be better off if you did die). Sigh. O.K. I'm getting depressed. Who started this thread anyway? LOL!
Just kidding. It's a good thread. Thought-provoking. Therapeutic. Even if it's painful as hell. Makes us acknowledge where we were. What our lives were like. Makes me fall in love with you all for sharing your pain and history with me and for allowing me to share mine with you.

[sami]

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Never mind! you don't have to pretend! I did it.....I quoted it.....yeehee! I feel like a technological whiz!

[Eve11]

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My drinking alone story

Boy, DidItForMe, you reminded me of myself. Have 2 children too and there were many times I would do the same. It started out having a glass of wine to "relax" and hubby or kids saw me have the one. Then I would sneak the 2nd and 3rd (as I didn't want to be a bad example to the kids) and before you know it the bottle would be gone. I'd get into watching something on t.v. that was inspiring or thinking about how I was going to "write that book or poem" but the alcohol demotivated me from getting anything done. I'm working on never drinking alone again. Think that one is a big downfall for people and gets them in trouble. Now I'm trying to just have the one drink with dinner and 2 at the most at an all night social event. We'll see...I'm real new to cutting back.

Personally I Kind of liked the secrecy of the sneaking. It was kind of fun to hide the bottle from hubby as I slipped downstairs to have my drinks. On the other hand it was embarrassing to be cleaning downstairs and find the empty bottle hidden in the laundry basket or shelf. sigh... hope those days are really over.:upset:

[NJSailor]

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Wow. I'm following all of this. Totally relate. Here's another one: my husband always calls on his way home, just to hear my voice and figure out if I've been drinking alone. He can tell just from the sound of my voice if I have... and usually I have. Please, God, if I could only stop THAT I'd be 95% better. I also drink when I'm out, but I am so self-conscious that I watch how much like a hawk.

[Barbie Ellen]

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YEP! I would like to drink alone too, was so happy when my husband told me he had to work late or was going on a weekend trip on his motorcycle....WOHOO!!!! Would start at one bar, hit the other, then come home and continue drinking, watching movies, being so happy that noone was there to tell me what to do! THAT WAS THE GREATEST!
Brings a smile to my face as I think about it - that is probably not a good thing, hey all my drinking memories arent bad ones....but now I know better.

[Chef]

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drinking alone

I'm just starting out as well. I'm glad I found this site b/c I've been drinking excessively for quite some time. For the past few days, my ears have been ringing as a result of, apparently, massive alcohol intake. I drink alone, too, and I get irritated when my husband doesn't watch sports elsewhere b/c, as I tell him, "I don't want to watch any sports at home," . . . truth is, I don't want him to see how much I actually drink, which is easily one of those big bottles of wine and maybe half of a smaller one. What's worse is my daughter seeing the results of my drinking the next day . . . I wait until after she goes to bed before I start the "real" drinking. Also, I've just started taking Chantix to help me stop smoking . . . which is when I drink. Again, I'm so thankful I stumbled across this place, and I know that there are other people who feel this way, too. Thanks!!!:new:

[betty boop]

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Hi Chef & :welcome:

You are not alone, this place is amazing, keep reading and posting, you wont have time to pour a drink!!!!