Here I go again on my own going down the only road I've ever known

[Matt]

@Lorelai

Each time you think of drink and drinking think of the terrible consequences that would come should you choose to drink.

This helps me with my recovery too. I also find this list that Sassy made helpful - it’s got her benefits of sobriety (scroll down a bit for the list):

A lifelong drinker hits 1200 days sober

I spent more than 40 years drinking and using various drugs. It was all I knew. It was social and ‘fun’, until it wasn’t. My drinking wasn’t ‘fun’ or normal for a couple of decades, but denial and lethargy can keep you stuck…and that pull of oblivion at the bottom of the never ending wine bottle was my friend. I spent decades jumping from one addiction to another to avoid ‘life’ and my self…yet still I did all the adult stuff of home, family, work…the epitome of a ‘functioning alcoholic’…never s…

(Also - good to see you again LMC )