Thanks for sharing your story Bob. You’ve been through a lot! Congrats on choosing sobriety. I think the biggest step you made by coming here, by not going it alone anymore. We need each other in life and especially in sobriety. Can’t do it alone friend. Meetings might help. This place has helped me tremendously over the last years.
We also all need a plan to make sobriety work. We need to create ourselves a life that we don’t feel the urge to escape from by drinking. How exactly you should do that you have to find out yourself. Some good ideas can be found here:
Hang around here, read, post, learn! Glad you’re here Bob. We’re in this together. All strength and success to you!