Its everywhere

[Pixmama09]

I am 3 days in. Usually day 3 to 4 is when I cave but I am determined to do this. One thing I have struggles with are all the fun memories . I was a fun drunk, never mean. I had a blast in my 20s and 30s (mostly 20s) and when I do go out, which is rare, it’s always a blast. I’m struggling with all the good memories and how fun things were. Does this make sense? Life us different now and I just drink at home. A habit I will break. Alcohol is everywhere! Movies. Shows. Stores. It’s literally thrown in our faces around every corner.
That makes this all so much harder. I wish I was one who could just have one or two but I have realized I am not.

[Nordique]

@Pixmama09

I’m struggling with all the good memories and how fun things were. Does this make sense?

It absolutely does make sense! Check out this recent thread, I think you will find a lot of useful information here

No drink, no fun?

So, I am currently about to start my journey… this has been on my mind for such a long time but the problem I have is I have always related drinking to fun. This meaning that anywhere I go for let’s say of an evening whether it be for food or out to socialise it always or has always involved drink. The problem is when I drink I don’t tend to stop… typical binge drinker. Don’t need or rely on it but yet once I do start it’s challenging to stop. So this normally ends with me falling out with ppl,…

[Ray_M_C_Laren]

Yea its everywere thats because there is more social drinkers than alkies and its a legal money earner , maybe try a meeting makes it easier to be with people in recovery wish you well

[TigerMatriarch]

I hear the struggle. Because I was a fun drunk I got lots of offers to go out with people to drink. They didn’t know my fun drinking had spilled over into daily drinking at home. I’m 94 days sober now. I see how others act when fun drunk and I cringe envisioning me being that fun drunk fool. Just keep in mind why you are getting sober and only tackle today. One day at a time is the mantra because it’s truth and it works.

[HoofHearted]

“Too much looking backwards is bad for progress.”

• Henry Ward Beecher.

Don’t worry about what was or what will be, just focus on what is. And the “is” is you sober today! That’s the most important thing! It gets better, a LOT better, just stay in the present!!

I used to think I was a fun drunk, but I’m pretty a fun sober guy too, so I guess that means I was just a drunk.

[Scrammbles]

@Pixmama09

Alcohol is everywhere! Movies. Shows. Stores. It’s literally thrown in our faces around every corner.

I couldn’t agree more. During my first week of being sober I couldn’t help but notice all the empty bottles/cans I would pass on my walk to work, grocery store, wherever. It really felt like booze was following me around haha.
Heck the other morning when I woke up, went out for a smoke and theres an empty can and bottle sitting in my yard… All I could do was laugh at that point, but I was annoyed that someone littered in my yard

[erntedank]

There are threads on alcohol being everywhere if you are interested in. Use the magnifying glass to search for keywords.
I post two screenshots for example

[Pica]

I swear this happened to me too. As soon as I stopped drinking I noticed so many bottles in the street. Were they there before and I just didn’t notice? So strange! I felt crazy noticing alcohol in such weird places

[Hazy]

Hey how do I change mine to green!!!..my apps blue…

[Daphnecat]

So why are you here then? Something negative must have happened or you would,not want to quit. Make a list of negative things.

[Pixmama09]

Nope nothing negative has happened. Thanx for assuming. I’m just ready to move on from drinking and am seeking support.

[Daphnecat]

That is good that nothing bad happened. Not the case for most of us. I hope that you can move on from drinking and find peace.
I think that you misunderstood me. What I should have said was “what is your why?”
Honestly did not mean to offend you. I can see how my message could be misconstrued.

[Andy68]

Hi Kristi, l guess this is why drug users say alcohol is harder to kick to the curb than Heroin;
Not physically maybe, but mentally!

When l was in rehab last Xmas,we would go for a walk around the block every morning before breakfast.
I remember passing a six pack of beer on someone’s nature strip everyday for 3 days, which was put there as a gift for the garbage collectors!
It didn’t trigger any cravings luckily, but l was mad that they just left them there. A child could have drunk them,or equally bad….an alcoholic!

I read an article the other day saying how we romanticise our drinking days-we only remember the good times and tend to forget the shitty times, especially as time goes on.

If we stay on guard, we realise that our addiction is trying to coax us back to our DOC-‘cunning,baffling,powerful’!

[Pixmama09]

I appreciate that. My why…is just to better myself. Drinking has become senseless as I drink alone but I still do it to pass the time. Just looking for help to combat that

[paper_boats]

Hulu with advertisements is the devil.
Sooo many alcohol commercials.

[erntedank]

In the Preferences. There are several themes you can choose

[Tiffyrenee]

Needed this.