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A phone call.
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Hello everyone; I recieved a phone call from my old boss, who had to let me go a few yrs back due to alcohol issues, and she wanted to talk to me about another employee there that had been with said place for numerous yrs and had got into the same thing, alcohol etc. Would it be okay if she gave her my number? W...
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I AM REALLLLLY MISSING JEN, (Doll)
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Hi Jen,
Don't really know if you ever come in here and read, maybe you do and maybe you don't.
Just want to say how much I miss you and your words of wisdom.
(Dont know if your computer is broken, and cannot get another)
Just wanted to say, again, how much we are missing one of our main grounding for...
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toni baloney
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Dean ~ Twenty Years Sober 1Day@aTime!!!
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Happy Soberversary, our dear Dean xxx Thank you for being such a steady, helpful, attentive, good example to all us Sobervibers! You are an Inspiration & I'm so proud to watch you give & grow. Thank you for being a staple contribution to our MIP board. Your stalwart, calming influence cre...
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GEEES LOUISE!(Warning: this is real trivia)
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Hi All,
In my little community they had a Major Water line break, so with notice the water was suppose to be off from 900 am til 500pm. Went into my bathroom and without thinking, like a reflex, started to turn on the water, it was only 1pm, it was ON, how great I thought at the time.
Then from some air tha...
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toni baloney
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Sharing the positive
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Hi all, I went to a meeting last night and it helped so much - tonight i'm at home on my own (plus kids) and my head is off on one! I know there is some positive stuff going on for me right now but it keeps getting buried - i've signed up for a short 4 month Open University course, i'm also off my anit depressant af...
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Ali7leighton
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Drink, feel shitty, repeat.
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Sadly the story of my life is about as complex as shampoo instructions. I guess I could have thrown a "puke on self" in there but that's just a given :|
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Tipsy McStagger
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should i call my sponsor at 6am?
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my sponsor supposedly goes to this 7am meeting. I want to go but it starts in an hour...I have no money or gas so I cant really get there. Do ya think it would be ok to call my "sponsor" at 6am to ask him for a ride? Seems a self evident question but i just dont know anymore. by the time anyone answers...
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Dodsworth
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Fiance in rehab, thinks he won't need AA when he gets out (pink cloud)
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Hello, My fiance is currently in rehab, and it appears he is on his "pink cloud," and is feeling quite invincible. He believes he is strong enought to handle life without having to go to AA meetings when he gets out. He told me that he thinks AA is more of a service to those who had problems wit...
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Crystalcc
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Daily Inventories
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Hi there all, i'm looking for some good advice on daily inventories. i'm just trying to get these in as part of my daily routine, Ali.
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Ali7leighton
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Day 1
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Hello everyone, I am brand new to the site.
I've been an alcoholic since I was 21 (29 now), although I didn't know it until recently. I thought I was fine as long as I didn't drink everyday, who cared if the weekends I was constantly drunk.
I am married now and my drinking has slowed, but when I do drink I...
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Taking my time
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Dear all, I am going to take my time in relation to the steps and finding a sponsor. I discussed same with fellow member after meeting. At the moment, I'm just trying to get my head around everything, avoiding the playground and to actually take it one day at a time, when it goes too fast for me, I recourse t...
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newcomer
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Glad to be sober!
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I am not sure if anyone remembers my post a couple weeks ago about me having a job where I travel a bunch and end up eating dinner and lunch at the hotel bar because thats where my co workers congregate. I got some suggestions to not eat at the bar, so tonight I bought a couple of appetizers and moved to a tabl...
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turninggrey
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Not sure how I should feel
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Greetings to all. I've been a member here for a few weeks, and always look forward to reading all the great things here. I'm hoping you all can share some of your experience strength and hope with me. I got out of rehab 3 weeks ago today, and have 111 day behind me. I started trying to get sober about 5 yea...
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Reffner
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Carol?
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Anybody seen or heard from Carol? (Quetzel)
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Second meeting
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Dear All, went to my second meeting today and the shares were good. I do not feel able to contribute yet and feel a bit of a phoney, though in reality I have every genuine reason to be there. I am slowly picking up the threads of real living and some of it hurts, my father wishes me to go over to his house on thur...
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Online meetings
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Does anyone attend the online meetings here or on any other site? If so, do you find them helpful? I'm still struggling with the going back to the meeting grind like I used to...we were all so young and there were so many of us in our "group" -- kind of like a high school class. The whereabouts of...
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kj
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Got the Alcoholic part of AA but need experience with the Anonymous part
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Hi everyone, Gratefully still sober. I have been selective about sharing with those around me about the new life I'm leading. I would NEVER break the anonymity of another member. This is my question. I have friends who are pestering me about where the heck I've been lately, and why I am not returnin...
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Hello. Am New Here .... Just Checking In..
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Hi. I am 37 days sober. I am so very grateful to have attended that first meeting on June 19th 2009. Since then I have been to a meeting almost every day and two some days. It's helping me to not pick up that first drink and to recognise that it is a daily reprieve. I'm exhausted tonight and have a thump...
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Ready to go to meetings - Starting today
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Dear All, I sourced the meetings I can get to today and will be starting today. I was supposed to be going to the races. nervous but have looked up the directions twice and will leave in plenty of time to get there. -- Edited by newcomer on Monday 27th of July 2009 04:15:26 AM
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Poem written while still "wet"
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i stumbled across a text file on my old laptop today and found this poem. The file was dated 9/27/2008. It was written to be a song, so some "rhythm" should be utilized in reading it: 18 years ... 18 years older, not wiser but worse for the wear; Eyes closed at the sunset so i won't be tempted to st...
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First meeting done - Thrilled
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First meeting done, feel good, did not feel as if I did not belong, the opposite, I think I was fairly deluded where meetings were concerned as I imagined they were not really for me, met some great people, got some numbers and am going back tomorrow, was supposed to go the races today but had I done so, I gu...
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Happy Birthday, Carl! 2 Years Sober Today :)
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My Boyfriend Carl turned 2 Today & I'm so proud of him. He loves & lives the Steps & passes it on.. Here's how he got here 1Day@aTime ~ My name is Carl and I am an Alcoholic. For me, to drink is to die.The last drink I had was on 26th July 2007 and at that time my life was helpless, homeless and hop...
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Just A Little Jaded
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http://ricksworld411.blogspot.com/2009/07/just-little-jaded.html
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Praying
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Just a note. I for the first time get on my knees to pray every morning. I am finding I am walking an equal to my peers instead of feeling less than. I always made lude statements about getting on ones knees. What a fool I was. Note I said was. Hugs to you all.
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OMG another AA crisis requiring prayer
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My sober sister in AA, "M", has just hit an 8 year-old child with her car on the way home from a meeting this morning. My friend is so devastated, we are extremely worried about her. She will not give us any details, just asks for prayers for the child, and also, please pray for her. Child is in th...
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"Going to AA meetings is a sign of weakness"
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So sayeth the (currently drinking and using) wife of someone, today. Of course we all rushed to tell him otherwise, and he knew otherwise. But I could still see some discomfort there. And at the time, I just couldn't for the life of me think what to say. See, we "macho men" don't want to loo...
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What is this?
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I drink a lot of beer and about once every 3-4 weeks, there is a day when I feel completely exhausted and spent...I get chills all day, have no appetite and will basically spend all day in bed other than to use the bathroom or get a drink of water. Is this alcohol withdrawal or something else?
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Scott Powell
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Just a question about the Avatars on MIP
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Before, when someone signed on, and hit the Avatar link, it would take you to a selection of different faces, and had a second page to it too.
So I was just checking it out, for someone that is new, so I practiced on my own first, hit the change Avatar button, and it would only take me to my own Pictures on my...
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toni baloney
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Hot DOGGG it's a Biggun'!!!!!
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Really now, no reason for the title, just feeling my oats tonight. Another week sober, another weekend coming up in which to wrestle with my bathtub (screwed up my caulking last week... ARGH!), and best of all, I have not had the urge to drink. not had the obsession, in over 20 months now, since a 2 week re...
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old newz
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just told my sponsor the other day that i was done drinkin...just told him that i was "done"....and with good reason he has every reason NOT to believe me which he doesnt...I should be slaughtered for my discretion...i mean what do you tell your sponsor of 2 years that your serious? You jus...
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Dodsworth
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I Got Married
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Yep, I really did it! I said I was going to but not when, so now it's done! Biggest difference: not spending every waking moment on some aspect of the wedding. It really came off well. My sober-A stepdaughter gave the toast (with ginger ale) and it was one of the nicest things anybody ever said about me....
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Going back to meetings...
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Hello everyone, Since school started for me I have gradually stopped going to my A.A. meetings. I see a lot of the members from my home group in the place where I work so I know that they know I am doing okay, but that really doesn't seem right somehow on so many levels. Idk, when I stopped going it was not t...
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Chaos where there is none
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This was brought up in another thread and has been the topic of meetings I have been to. I noticed myself doing this so so much in the first few months of sobriety. I lived in chaos so long that my brain created it and still does to an extent because it is used to drama, misery, and chaos. I wanted to post ab...
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pinkchip
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Please say a prayer
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My grand sponsor is dying of lymphoma. It is a kind that does not respond well to treatment. My sponsor is very upset (and so are all of us in the "sponsorship family of women"). My sponsor said to me, "I have to face the fact that the woman who showed me how to stay sober so I could live, is no...
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jonijoni1
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Riotous Living
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LOL.... My husband was getting out of the shower tonight, singing a song that had me rolling. He sings these old-school country songs in the shower, often with hilarious themes most of which I have never heard. Tonight's was something like- "If me and my wife get to fussin' tonight, Me and that wo...
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jonijoni1
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Struggling To Survive
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I'm new to this message board and thought I would introduce myself and give you a brief version of my current story. I'm 31 years old and have been trying (unsucessfully) to be sober for just over a year now. I have good days and bad days. This time around I've been sober since June 26th. I was in denial for...
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Relationship Progress
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My wife went to visit her Mum in the old folks home at the weekend, taking my son and daughter with her. Son and daughter were dreadfully upset at the state of their Nan and were very withdrawn after the visit. My wife got talking to the daughter on Wednesday - explaining her Mum's condition and asking wha...
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HI
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Hi all Just thought I'd drop and say hi and well just returned yesterday from Toronto. Went down for some legal stuff and did what I wanted to do, but what a disappointment with some family members. Just at a lost for words, the self pity party and blaming everyone else. Sad Really I went to see if my brot...
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Tina
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Hi everyone
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I just wanted to say hello to all, I hope everyone is well. With school starting in only a few weeks here, and my youngest son getting ready to leave for college, I have a little uneasiness to having the empty nest. I guess i still have some problems with change lol.Maybe a few more meetings will help with t...
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Meeting Question
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Do you have to speak at a meeting? Can you just sit there and listen. Then leave once it is over?
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Another one out the door sober.
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Aloha MIP family Saw the wife, or now I say widow, of an old friend of mine from program. We first met in another program for a problem we shared as a result of our drinking. I was able to give him something about his anger that he was very grateful to have and helped him in his family, program and community r...
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Anniversary Week
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It's with great gratitude, joy, and humility (in that order ) I report that this Saturday is my anniversary. This Friday, in 1989, I called up my best friend Steve whom I'd known (and drank with) since I was 16 (29 yo at that time) to ask him to go out drinking with me. It was a Monday night and he asked me...
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daily meditation and prayer
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Hi everyone, I'm wanting to add daily (or hourly) meditation and prayer to my step work. I already do this some without specific words, but I'm feeling that a conscious and focused effort would be helpful. There's a prayer in the Eleventh step, 12X12, which I came across while reading my for step wo...
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it's Sunday, I have no get up and go!
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I've had a really maniac couple of weeks what with (mostly) work and all. I work next week but then I get a week holiday time (with the weekends that makes 9 whole days) i've been on the road at site meetings for 9 of the last 10 working days and done around 2500 miles since the beginning of the month. Fortun...
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Borrowed from the Archives,2007 /Dean's Post on AA's view of Dealing with Resentments
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Thanks Dean for .....all of this.
1. They sound like the philosophy of the man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he can't feel the ache. If you draw this fallacious reasoning to the attention of an alcoholic, he will laugh it off, or become irritated and refuse to t...
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I Attended My First Ever A A meeting Last Night.
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First off, thank you all very much for replying to my post yesterday. Your thoughts, opinions and encourgment were all appreciated. The meeting was held in a catholic church 10 miles from where I live and it started at 7:30pm. I arived at 6:45pm, yes, 45 minutes early because there was no way I was going...
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Hi all -- coping with frustration in recovery
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Hi all, Steve here, alcoholic. Great forum and thanks for letting me be part of it. I've been in the Fellowship in Feb and had a had a slip while on holiday in April so that my last drink was around early May. Things on the one hand seem good. Yet on the other hand, my clumisness, impatience, carelessness a...
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I need to come back to AA
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I have been really silly I hadn't drank for 2 and a half years, then I started feeling like I was missing out, and recently I have been out drinking and I feel really depressed again. I know I need to come back to AA. -- Edited by StPeteDean on Monday 20th of July 2009 09:01:05 PM
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Please help me deal with this.... very serious
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Hi MIP Family. I am having a really hard time right now, accepting a big change in a dear friend's life. She has the same sponsor I do, but I haven't seen her in over a year, as I just assumed she was "doing her thing", and I was just doing mine. i had going through a bit of a depression last winter, a...
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Coincidences, coincidences.
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I live in a small city of about 100,000 people (I moved there 4 years ago from a much larger city). A month or so into my AA experience, one of the big head honchos from the job that I moved here to take (and have since lost due to my DUI) showed up at a meeting. Now, tonight, I just found out that he is my sponsor'...
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