What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

[rebirth]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

:H:HLOL!!

[spuddleduck]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

i love seeing the positive instead of all the negative crap that i thought was real when i was drinking... enjoying the little things in life... LOVE IT

[rebirth]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

I love the continous flow of my days..not having this interuption of self loathing and wasting my time on how I hate myself etc.
I use to wake up with hangovers and think "how am I gonna get through this day". Now I say " A new day.what can I do with it" A BIG change!

[Raven.joy]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

its all so much better

[Guitarista]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

Looking like a young man, or my age, rather than 10/20 years older. Even after a just a couple of week's i really noticed the difference.

Feeling consistently good physically, aside from the usual daily creak's and crack's!

Feeling proud of my accomplishment in getting sober. It's a huge thing for a life long drunk like me.

The overwhelming, and hard to believe, real sense of freedom, and knowing i choose this, and have the power to continue feeling like this.

The re-found joy of communicating, and mixing with other people again. No man or woman is an island.

[Daya]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

Had to bump this up

It's only been day 1( again) but I have woken up looking fresh and clear. And feeling positive. This happens immediately with me when I stop drinking... The is a very inspiring thread!!

[Mick]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

I have my life and health
I am in a position to enjoy it
I am the master now..not the slave, unless I let the slave take over
I saw sense before it was too late
I feel great

[Janice]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

I love waking up after a great night's sleep. Gone are the night sweats, the panic attacks & my heart pounding in the middle of the night.

I love having more energy & being more organised.

I love not having anything to hide.

I love having a half empty recycling box (husband's empties!).

I love going down the wine aisle in the supermarket knowing I wont be buying it and more importantly that I dont want to buy it.

I love being happy.

I love my family & appreciate everything & everyone so much more.

I love my life.

[shueaddict]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

Feeling like myself again, positive and full of joy; but actually better ... I learnt to appreciate everything good that much more.

[mauritiusdodo]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

I love not waking up with a mouth like the bottom of a budgies cage, I love not being worried about breathing AL fumes on everyone, I love not worrying about driving first thing in the morning, I love not wasting a tenner a day on wine, I love not hating myself for failing again but most of all I Love that I have found inner strength to finally do this!!!

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[msfreedom]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

AF Day 24

:h I feel more alive when I am alcohol free. It is a blessing ! :h

[CanToo]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

I love waking up knowing I put another AF night behind me.

I love waking up period.

I love that my son doesn't have to worry about my mood.

I love that there is more money in the bank.

And I love this feeling of just being alive.

[mario]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

I love my life now that it is alcohol free, everything and I mean everything is so much clearer.

[musomatt]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

cedar;332923 wrote: I love kissing my little girl to bed not smelling of wine
I love not having to leave myself notes to remember who I have spoken to and what I have said or done (and may I add in the most awful drunk scrawl)
I love getting home knowing I have NOT been driving myself and often my little girl around drunk
I love not living a lie
I love waking up in the middle of the night without feeling desperate and full of self loathing
I love not having to having to remember where I have hidden wine bottles
I love myself a whole lot more

This is how I used to feel, when I gave up drinking for two years. But I lost it all again because I started drinking again. I am an idiot.

God I want this 'freedom' back.

Badly, badly, badly.

I want that 'kissing my children goodnight without stinking of alcohol thing' back
I want to be able to wake up every day alert and inspired. Not dulled and depressed
I want to run, without my insides hurting
I want to record great music and listen back to it and it sound good (not utter shit like it does after a night of drinking)
I want my wife to fall in love with me all over again (I so desperately want that... and our marriage not to fall apart)

x

[Daya]

What do you love about your AF Life? (Inspired by Cindi)

bump

Im bumping this thread, as i think its so important..

I'm remembering back to when I wasn't drinking at all for this, but the main thing i loved was:

A feeling of safety, not being afraid of what I would do, or what would happen.
Realizing that it was fine to be "dull" and "boring" at social events
enjoying the calm I felt at social events sober.
Feeling that I could trust myself. That I was my friend, not alcohol.