My husband’s family Christmas party was tonight, they are very traditional Latins and love to sing dance and drink. I thought I would be strong enough to say no if offered a drink, but I didn’t even make it that far. I saw the bottles on the table and had to leave. I’m only 5 days into recovery but I feel terrible that I didn’t have the will power to even look at a bottle of alcohol and think, nahh. 
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Can’t beat yourself up, you are only at 5 days.
It was at least two weeks before I thought I was comfortable enough to be around alcohol.
About 4 weeks is when I felt really good about it.
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You did the right thing by leaving!
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I would have done the same thing. Your dobriety is what should be most important right now and family and loved ones should understand. It took me 5 weeks to go out in public where booze was at and even then I was shakey. Even today at 63 days I had small thoughta of drinking. But we all do what we have to do to remain sober and that is ok. Have a great sober Christmas!
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