I'm on day 9 today...which, if the past is any indication, is usually when I begin to suffer strong temptations...so when the wine is being poured with the family tomorrow, it's going to be hard for me.
Wish me luck!
~ Scott
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Better days are in the cards, I feel. I feel it in the changing winds.... ~ Jimmy Buffett
I know how you feel. What helps me when I have feelings like that when people like that are drinking, I think to myself all of the work and investment I have in my new life...mind you that I have three weeks and 4 days ok? It's hard work to stay sober but it's so much fulfilling than the stupid life I had before. All of the late nights drinking and all of the hangovers and all of the urges to drink when I had a hangover....what a joke
I tell myself all of the time that it was harder when I was drinking than anyother thing I have ever commited to. I worked out to drink and worked out during the drinks and worked of the hangover and worked out waiting to drink again and around and around we go....you know the song and dance
Ask yourself this....what have you viewed differently since you quit drinking? I have actually started laughing again...and I mean a real laugh...I go out and run at 8 am in the morning and I am excited to wake up again..Wow! What an awesome tradeout! I walk with a skip in my step and I look at nature and the trees. I am thinking about going back to school..Before I couldn't think and commit because my drinking career was too important...ya know, those hangovers were too important than school...how sick was I thinkin anyway! I know your life now has been better and just remember the bottom you hit that made you quit and I am sure you will look at that wine as if it was satan himself....don't go there right?
hugs and don't worry...if you feel like it's too much...you can leave to take care of yourself too! Whatever it takes and what ever length we have to take to save our sobriety!!!!!!!
Hey Scott, Happy sober Thanksgiving to you, too. There'll be alot of us that will be around drinkers, or annoying people this year, so hang in there and remember, you will not be alone tomorrow in coping with this stuff. Good day to be thankful for more than the turkey and stuffing, eh? hugs, Chris
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