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relationships!!
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i got sober in this relationship and i believe that my changes are causing more fights. OR he is just out right controlling. we can never agree on anything...i feel as if he is purposely doing things to piss me off, well he admits it most of the time. In turn it makes me so angry and i can't control my mouth, a...
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Help
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Hello everyone, I'm okay, however; I can not get online to chat with all of you and I want to. I'm sure I'm sure I did something wrong but any ideas would be great. Thank you all
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Daily Reflections ~ Readiness to Serve Others & 24hrs
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. . . our Society has concluded that it has but one high mission to carry the A.A. message to those who dont know theres a way out. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 151 The Light to freedom shines bright on my fellow alcoholics as each one of us challenges the other to grow. The Steps to self-improvem...
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back from my evaluation - mind on alcohol
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took most of the day but we're home from my 2 hr evaluation - i did end up speaking to the counselor and telling her some of my past - left here this morn not sure what way i was going to go with it - end result was not what i was hoping for - mad at "the system" - honestly think they're out to get all they...
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Soma
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My doctor prescribed me soma. I just took my first dose. The only problem is, I feel drunk.....EXACTLY like being drunk. I hate it and just want it to go away. Has any one taken it and felt the same? I took one as prescribed, and will try once more, with just a 1/2. Other than that, I'm done. Then when...
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Daily Reflections ~ Our Primary Purpose & 24hrs
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30OUR PRIMARY PURPOSEMay 30, 2009The more A.A. sticks to its primary purpose, the greater will be its helpful influence everywhere. A.A. COMES OF AGE, p.109It is with gratitude that I reflect on the early days of our Fellowship and those wise and loving foresteppers who proclaimed that we should n...
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I give up
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I don't know, maybe this just isn't for me, maybe it's the wrong time, or maybe I'm just too weak. I tried this and it isn't working. I know it isn't the program, it's me. I just need a break. Thanks for all your help and hearing me out. Mark
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Why Stay Sober????????
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God, isn't it GREAT to be sober???
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Hello all!!!!
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Hi my favorite sober friends!!!!! Just dropped in to say Hello and let you know ...yes, Im still alive and sober!!!!! So many new people!!! Welcome and I love all the new comments...Could sit here all day and post something to all but....got too many things to do!!! Life has been good...still working t...
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Our Hidden Gifts
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One of the best thrills for me is seeing a newcomer at a meeting. First I wonder, will they come back for a second meeting? Then if they do, and they then come for a third and fourth meeting, and meetings turn to months, I begin to wonder what hidden treasure will they find? I am always amazed of the hidden...
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EEEKKKK! (off topic for sure)
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Hi all,
Have not been around, cannot stay on computer, for say more that 30 a day, every over day, I have to have this Eye Surgery, where they replace my tear duct system, that got all blocked up, and stopped working, and when I went in to get the Details
that is were the EEEEKKKK came from. They have to go u...
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jealousy?
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First off, sorry for spelling. I'm on my way to a hotel... My wife's reason for leaving was me drinking. Now she can't stand the 2 hrs meetings. When I'm onlne here, it's constant, "talking to your drunk buddies?" (no offense) It doesn't seem to matter, drunk or sober, it isn't good e...
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Coincidence? I don't think so...
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I'd like to share a story with you, that has given me goose bumps, a nervous stomach, and filled me with a lot of excitement. The one thing that I have always loved about AA is the spirituality of it all and my own belief that nothing happens by coincidence 14 years ago I tried to quit drinking to please the...
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Dave Harm
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EXCITED (off subject)
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Hi Everyone, I haven't slept much since Mon. night.....too excited. My son, who is doing a tour in Iraq, gets 15 days of R and R....in the states!!! His plane was delayed Mon. (My heart sank.... wondering the reasons.) He emailed about 11 hrs. ago saying he was 'leaving on a jet plane.........
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learning
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Back at work
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I'm back at work, after a rough night. Still sober, but trying to accept the fact that my marriage IS over. Trying to stay positive and keep working. All I want to do is go home and cry. I can't believe this has to be that hard. Why can't I just get pissed at her and not care? Everyone is going for drinks...
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going for 2 hr DUI evaluation this morning
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since im out of state i need to have a 2hr evaluation instead of the one hour - boyfriend will be my character witness this DUI was from switching seats with an old boyfriend few months back - now im doing the time for him and paying his fines HOWEVER in just the past few days im starting to think alcohol just...
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florida
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Perspective (and a contact with a Higher Power)
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Just wanted to share a little experience I had today... I'm a few weeks back from a blip and am finding a great deal of inspiration and strength from meetings and this forum. I have mentioned before, I really never thought I would pick up again, but it just went to show how cunning this illness is... alt...
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sabby
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MIRACLE NEEDED!
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Members..........I don't know if this is the right place to be posting this message but i don't know where else to post a message such as this. i am posting this for my (common law) husband who is in dire need of a lawyer to defend a civil lawsuit. We are in Arizona. The lawyer he hired used up all his money an...
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Why am I going backwards??!
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I just returned from a 3 week trip to Europe where I did service work and worked with people from around the world. I stayed sober throughout it all and as of today I have 104 days of sobriety. Before I left my sponsor and I worked through steps 4-7 and I left for Europe with great momentum. Now that I'm back h...
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The Twelve Step Rewards
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The Twelve Step Rewards ~ 1. Hope instead of Desperation 2. Faith instead of Despair 3. Courage instead of Fear 4. Peace of Mind instead of Confusion 5. Self Respect instead of Self Contempt 6. Self Confidence instead of Helplessness 7. The Respect of Others instead of their Pity & Contempt 8. A C...
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Letting Go
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I posted on here several months ago about my 19 year old niece who had experienced a bad trip with the drug Ecstasy and ended up in a mental ward while she was away at college. My mom and I sent for her to come home then and she took a medical leave from college. She told us that she was an alcoholic, and she im...
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Hi everyone I'm new here
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Hi all, I've just had broadband connected here at home, and I'm sooo glad, because being here on this board is really important. I've returned from a meeting tonight (my first in a few months) to which I dragged myself in desperation following a horrid horrid weekend binge (my second, and I hope my last...
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Peer pressure
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I used to laugh when I was a teenager and "old people" talked about peer pressure. I've been at my family's. At the pool, cooking out...NOT drinking. I think I'm the only one there sober. Not that they're pushing drinks to me, it's just everywhere. They keep going to the shed for anothe...
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Hi, I'm new here.
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Hello- It was suggested to me by a senior member of this forum that I begin my own thread and tell my story and share my ESH (which after a couple minutes of confusion, I realize is experience, strength, and hope) so here goes. I'm relatively young to be in AA, 24 years old. On September 6, 2007 God gave me r...
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My Second AA Meeting!
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Just wanted everyone to know that I went to my second AA meeting tonight. It was actually my second meeting of the day. My wife also went to Al Anon tonight to show her support. The meeting was a closed meeting and it was great! It is my intention to go to a meeting per day over the next 90 days. Again I jus...
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God works in mysterious ways
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Just thought I'd drop in, My son got a email the other day, from a woman who at one point had children by my kids father. I knew of them and brought my children up with the knowledge of havin a sister, (half). I spoke with the both of them today and we're gonna make arrangements to set up something for all 3 o...
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Sober Community in Miami Florida
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I am not a spammer. I just wanted to post the address to a sober living community in Miami. www.villagemidtown.com Great place for sober people in miami to live for cheap. Not a halfway house, etc. Just a recovery community. I currently live there. Must be sober to reside.
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Sorry to only come back when I slip.
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Hey All, The last time I was active here was last June when I slipped last. Well I did it again. It is just insane. I bought a bottle and measured it, rationed myself, I never got sick, I never got a hangover, I was very shrewd. BUT I HATE MYSELF! So much of my integrity is rolled up in my past victories ov...
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Beginner's meeting experience
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I just wanted to share a revelation I had as I attended yet another beginner's meeting. I still go to 3 of them a week. When I started there were so many white chips. Several of us made it to 90 days. In my first meetings, I looked at those people with over 90 days as being so strong. Then I became one. Tha...
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WELCOME TO ALL THE NEW PEOPLE HERE!!!!
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Hi There to All of You,
My name is Toni, and I usually post here, but having an eye problem, so have to stay off of computer.
Missing this MIP board so much I just had to break the Doctors orders for a few minutes , but will be back soon.
So AMAZING to see all the New wonderful folks joining MIP. this is an...
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TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY!!!
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OPPSS LOL here's showing my level of insanity!!!At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hairdryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.Page yourself over the intercom, and don't disguise your voice.Everytime Ask you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.Pu...
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'Hello' introduction
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Hi there, I am new to this and made a few posts but I thought I would say a proper 'hello' I had been attending meetings for almost 9 months before I picked up again - it was a huge shock to honest, I really did think I was doing all the right things and working this. But I guess it just shows me how cunning this...
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Just thought I'd drop
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Hi Just thought I'd drop in and let you guys I'm still here, been busy hours at work have increased somewhat. Busy getting start with my daughter going to camp for a month at the end of June, she'll be gone for a month. I'm excited for her and I'm gonna miss her at the same time. She now works along side he...
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Introduction if I may.
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I hope I am posting this in the correct forum. If not, please direct me to the correct one. Well, I am here finally. I began drinking about 3 years ago and I think over the last several days I have come to the realization that I need help to quit. I am not physically addicted (no shakes, no need of a drink in th...
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I'm back, and starting again
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I know that I need this, It's just so hard. I was sober for over 2 months. Out of nowhere, I slip up and can't seem to get my footing again. I was going to go to a meeting today, but it's an hour earlier on Saturdays and Sundays. I'll be there tomorrow. I had some issues come back from the past to bite me, and...
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Prayers Needed Please
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Hi everyone,
I have just received a very upsetting 'phone call. My cousin's youngest daughter, aged 13, is in hospital yet again. She was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis shortly after she was born. She has been in hospital for the last five or six weeks. Recently, she has been on a feeding tube.
She...
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sober holdiay weekend!
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The weather is great here and it's a great weekend. Yesterday I visited my grandma, watched some supermoto practice at the local track, rented a jack and re-leveled my shed, did yard work, got a pallet of retaining wall blocks for a project, BBQ'd, had backyard campfire, went to a meeting, went for a m...
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Daily Reflections ~ A List of Blessings & 24Hrs
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Daily Reflections A LIST OF BLESSINGS One exercise that I practice is to try for a full inventory of my blessings. . . . AS BILL SEES IT, p. 37 What did I have to be grateful for? I shut myself up and started listing the blessings for which I was in no way responsible, beginning with having been born of sound m...
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******* 500 POSTS********
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.... that is, since I changed my profile and started again at 0, last year or something like that.... :o) Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyy
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intro from me...
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hello I have been sober for 6 years. but as of late I feel I need allot of reinforcement spiritually, I do attend a walk in meeting, and I just foun this message board, also reading the big book...hope to get to know you all better... looking forward to taking one day at a time with you all...
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Daily Reflections ~ Spiritual Health & 24hrs
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When the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p 64It is very difficult for me to come to terms with my spiritual illness because of my great pride, disguised by my material successes and my intellectual power. Intelligence is not incompa...
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Memorial Day
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Missing my Hero, and Oh so proud of him!
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He wont stop drinking & she wont let him go
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I am in a desperate situation & need urgent help. My partner & I live in my mums house and since she got with her bloke & married him last summer this household has been hell. He is a drinker & cause`s nothing but arguments every day/ night. The police have been called several times but...
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Can you please help me ? I'd really appreciate it!
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Hi there, I wonder if you could please help me?I am a member of AA and am currently conducting a study for my undergraduate dissertation on ' 'perspectives of time', anxiety & spirituality in 12-step addiction recovery ' and I'd really appreciate it, if you could help by completing my online surv...
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New Doctor's Orders
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I saw my "Carl Jung" this afternoon (you would never believe how much this Dr. reminds me of Jung!!), and he has prescribed a lifestyle change for me. I have been worrying about my level of stress and exhaustion lately, and was asked when I get up in the morning. "Oh, 5:30". When d...
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Back to everything
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Well, I just got back last night from being in Europe for 3 weeks. What a trip it was! I stayed at a youth center in Wales for 2 weeks doing some service work for the local forestry service (clearing footpaths, building small bridges). Of the 14 people I stayed with, I was the only one that spoke fluent Engl...
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Wonderful News Today
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I have been working so hard in a new role at work the past 6 months, it is hard to explain, but it has been soooo stressful, just the nature of it, and 99% of my time not being with my beloved patients anymore, being stuck at a desk and dealing with all kinds of issues, pathology, and medication changes, not...
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Simple Evening Gratitude.... for newbies and old timers...
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Welcome to my quiet living room here tonight. It is evening and time to get calm, relax, clear the mind. I am aware of my own peace tonight, and I want to share it with you. Pajamas on, sitting in the recliner, logging on to MIP in the quiet, dog lying on the floor next to me, and seeing what miracles you all ar...
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jonijoni1
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Sh*t, still have sensitive feelings..........................
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Witchy women talking about me at work, the boss getting on my butt and taking stuff out on me from out of nowhere. Really felt like telling them all to go to hell, and just driving away, leaving them hanging like fools, with mouths wide open. But hey, I guess I didn't get sober to act like that. I can at least...
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Death in your Family
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I find it amazing how GOD works in misterious ways. My granfather passed this a.m. and I prayed last night although I knew if it was his time to go he would. When I prayed last night I asked for him to visit in my dreams(which I new he would) but he passed at 5:30 a.m. I did not see him nor do I think I wanted to do...
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