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[sammys]

New to the site

Welcome everyone new lots of good advice and help here. You can do it if I am, really I am not kidding on that. I have doing so much better with my drinking since finding this site.

Sammys

[julie001]

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Welcome. Logging on and catching up on posts every night has been my very best defense in my struggle to avoid the nightly ritual of wine. I agree that I realized that I had a problem when I recognized the fact that I couldn't just stop drinking. I had to stop for a bottle of wine and even started hiding my drinking from my husband. My alcohol problem had snuck up on me and became a full-blown addiction. I also am following the MYO program, taking most of the vitamins, use the CDs, and have read the book a few times. The empathy and support from everyone here is tremendous. Good luck!

Julie

[norma lynne]

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Hi, I am new as well. I am also a "functioning alcohol dependent". I am a nurse, and every day off I struggle with the wine. I think that 99% of my problem is depression. When I was in school I put on about 20 lbs, which I also attribute to the wine, snacking while studying to counteract the wine and being sedentary due to the amount of required reading. I am completely alone at home. My only child is grown and married(I wanted at least 3 children, but my husband was selfish and would not compromise). Now I have gone through menopause at a relatively young age, with no hope of a truly happy family life. I will quit talking now, I don't wish to over indulge in a selfish manner, but I like knowing that there is someone out there with similar struggles. My husband hates it when I drink too much, but insists that he wants me to enjoy a drink as long as it is in moderation. I have decided not to buy wine and he will as a "surprise" have a bottle waiting for me. Not recently though, because in the last few weeks he has come home to find a sleeping wife on two or three occasions. Hope we can find a way to get this monkey off of our backs. Have a wonderful day. I am trying to stay strong, I wish the same for you!

[retteacher]

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I'm new & LibraLeo thank you so much for saying you are AF 3 weeks. I haven't done 3 weeks in years. I can go a few days at a time but then drink again (white wine). Once I start I can't stop.

[cleo]

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I am new

:new:

Alcohol is a crappy disease. I can relate to much of what I have read on this site. Been to rehab twice & still cannot kick it. Lost some work & maybe my marriage. I try to go to a meeting once a day, but as my husband stashed my car away, I am following my sponsor's advice and trying to do online and/or phone sessions.

Any advice is helpful.

[cleo]

New to the site

The "sleeping wife" that could be me! Only you are in AL and I am in DC. I am so thankful to have found this site. I used to be wine, but my husband claimed Vodka did not leave a smell. Well, he was right for everyone except me. It does indeed leave a smell. Just not as obvious as wine.

[Quiescent]

New to the site

:welcome:
wine lover, landsharkman, librleo, norma lynne cleo and retteacher,

You've found a wonderful support system here

[Beaches]

New to the site

The support here is great. I used to drink until I passed out most nights. It got old and now I am here. My life has changed and I am such a better person now for myself and my family.
I hope you all stick around. Read the book, threads and keep posting.

[Wine_Lover]

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Thanks for the advice. You've inspired me-maybe I'll begin to lose some of this weight. I think the hardest part is getting past the first couple of days of not drinking. I had planned to start yesterday-and had a rough day at the office and stopped on my way home. So-I've told myself that today will be the day. My husband and I are planning a walk this evening after dinner, and I think if I can stay busy I won't miss my nightly glass of wine...or two or three. When we are at the busiest part of the sports season with our kids, I hardly drink at all. I think a lot of it has to do with being indoors all winter.

Thanks again....let's see how it goes today! : )

[redrobin]

New to the site

Hello and welcome all newcomers!!

Winelover, I can only echo what the others have said -if you think you're drinking too much then you are! Your story sounds so, so familiar but it was a beautiful crisp Australian Sauvignon Blanc that did it for me!

But in the silver lining stakes - LibraLeo has mentioned losing a lot of weight in a pretty short time and I've just posted in another thread on this site complaining about losing too much weight!!!!!!

Good luck every one,

RR

[cleo]

New to the site

Still have not figured out the thread system...thought I was computer savvy. I went to jail for my DUI I DO NOT recommend this experience. It is nothing like your atty. would tell you!

[trying]

New to the site

Love the wine, too!

Hi Winelover. We have the same story. I also drink comfortably 3 glasses of wine in the evening and a bottle each weekend day. Luckily here the stores sell alcohol after noon on Sundays. However, my husband drinks only socially and he has major concerns that I need that daily alcohol. If it weren't for him, I probably wouldn't think I had a problem! I've never missed work, rarely have a hangover, also went back to school and got a 4.0 GPA and sat for the CPA exam and passed. I am a top level executive at a successful company and no one in my family or at work would even guess that I have a problem. It's only my husband who actually see's what I do EVERY day. And I have to admit, he's right. So, that's why I thought this site would help. I'm trying to find out how other "successful" people deal with this drinking problem! I've really been trying to cut down for a month now, since a major blow-out at home with my husband. I've cut down to 2 drinks and actually take a couple nights off of drinking during the week, but it's VERY hard. I can't even imagine a weekend going by without alcohol at this point...

[louise]

New to the site

Lets imagine

Hey trying - lets put on those headphones and imagine this weekend AF. See us all happy on Mon morning? And welcome Landshark, Wine Lover, Cleo and Libra. I've just been here 2 weeks but it is soooooo helpful.

[tea]

New to the site

Wine lover and landshark.

Welcome - you have just found the family that everyone could ever wish for...... welcome aboard the good ship myo.

Lxxx