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[Serenity]

I don't know if anyone feels the same but I am very quietly and happily becoming sober with your help (10 days now) - and feeling really good and dare I say it - opptomistic - started kudzu and amino acids today - thanks Louise, Seabreez for advice.

.....and don't really feel like sayig "HI EVERYONE, JUST GIVEN UP ALCOHOL COS I'm AN ALCOHOLIC".

I am going to my auntys for easter and they are big drinkers and normally so am I!!! and I don't want to get into the whole so why aren't you drinking.... whats wrong.... My aunty is quite intrusive and will want all the details which I don't feel I am ready to give - hey I don't have all the answers.

It seems like the people who don't have a prob with drink don't aren't really bothered that you have given up and those that do are desperate for you not to stop.

Sorry to rant and I know it has been covered before but just wanted to get it out there.

May say I 'm pregnant!! again that will shut them all up. (husband will be shocked as haven't done it for yonks!!)

[Determinator]

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10 days in is where I started to feel really OK again. So glad for you Serentiy!

those that matter don't mind, and those that mind don't matter.

my name is Determinator and I'm a Garlic aholic

[Ripley]

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hi Serenity

funny isn't it how some people get SO twitchy when you say you're not drinking...

I lied at a wedding recently: said i had cystitis and was on antibiotics which didn't mix with booze. I know it's pathetic to lie, but I was so fed up with justifying myself to people.

10 days is great. i find it gets easier and easier...

(better not fall of the wagon anytiome soon then!)

K x

[Breez]

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Congrats on yet another AF day & starting on the supps & kudzu. Just taking them will give you better confidence in the noggin' ~ and a beautiful, healthy, non-alcoholic glow!

Keep up the great job!

[YoungAtHeart]

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I don't think it is pathetic to lie at all. I prefer to think of it as protecting oneself from the inappropriate intrusions of others or giving an innocuous and reasonable explanation when you don't feel like going through the whole rigamarole

I am very open about my drinking issues WITH PEOPLE I TRUST. People are only entitled to know what you want to share with them.

Your first job is to protect yourself and your sobriety.

Good job with your AF days so far!

XOXOX,
Kathy

[IAD]

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You're on the right track! Tell everyone that you care about your PG. and they will respect you for it!............IAD

[morrison]

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Hello Serenity

Congrats on 10 days. I agree with Kate. A little white lie won't hurt to get people off you back. I've already resorted to making "them" feel guilty. I'd start with the medication excuse first. Then, I'd get a sad face, put my head down a bit, and say, "I can't drink anymore, cause I have a damaged pancreas," That shuts them up about asking me to have a drink. Yes, it's a bit :devil: , but you gotta do what you gotta do.

I know I shouldn't joke about that much. It wouldn't surprise me if I did damage something over time, and I'm not making lightly of anybody that might have any physical problems.

[YoungAtHeart]

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LOL, that is brilliant, Morrison!!

[morrison]

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Thanks Young. It works. Of course, I'll probably get a call soon from my mom asking, "Oh my God, what happened to your pancreas?" You know how word travels.

[Cashregister]

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I say i'm on a diet - not lying at all

Cashy
xxxx

[SKendall]

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I agree with everyone above. You will get to a point where you honestly will feel that it is nobody's business. In the meantime, little white lies of medication, diets, etc. are okay. I have a British heritage with nosey aunts, etc. and I have to consider what their motivation is in prying so hard - do they want to embarrass me, humiliate me, shame me, because none of their questions every seemed rooted in compassion - just nosiness.

You're doing great and just go with the little white lies until you get comfortable with not having to answer to anyone.

Good Luck

[Kimmy]

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I like the pregnant thing, In a way you are - you are looking after a new you - it is funny how when we are pregnant we can stop everything that I going to hurt that precious little thing - Our mothers did I so we are precious, so carry on and care for yourself as if you were the new embryo, eat things that will make you grow strong, drink things that will only help with your health and only lift things that you want to - not the glass!

Good going on day 10 - I know what you are saying when you say you have got there because of this place - I feel the same.

[Paddy]

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Cashy, I'm SO with you. I told 'them' that this time round. I'm currently on holiday here in Europe. But, I must frankly say, that I also told people that I found that our culture was so much into consuming alcohol that I decided to break from the tradition, and at the same time lose weight and live a healthier life. And THAT got some of them REALLY thinking and feel bad (Morrison, where's that devil icon of your's, ha, ha?!!)

[Paddy]

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Kimmy, re- British heritage and old aunts with crooked teeth, ha, ha. You ever come across this joke:

Single woman going to weddings and at every wedding she's being bugged by old aunts asking her: When are you next?

Until, yes, you guessed it, next funeral came along, when the singleton asked her aunts, so ... when are you next?!

;-)

[Kimmy]

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LOL - Paddy you crack me up - well how the hell did you know - I am 37 years old, 3 kids and never been married - I call the BF husband because it makes life easier - we have been together for 11 years now - my daughter was from another man - boy do I sound bad if you put it down on paper - well never mind that!

so yes i know the joke its me - every time I went to a wedding people would say "when is it your turn" well now I have got to the age that I go to Friends Kids weddings and funerals and let them try asking "when is it your turn?" and 40th birthday parties -

Boy the thought - I use to be the hottie at parties and the girl who would keep up with the men drink for drink and then still be the driver - now all I am is the drunk aunty in the corner - thanks Paddy for this thought and mental pic.