I’m doing good. Nearing 18 months but still fighting the battle everyday. Still have a lot of ups and downs related to mental health and medications, but no benzos and no booze.
I’m so glad you found that life line! So glad you came back to us as well! You voice has always been powerful and I love seeing you posting again!
Exactly my story this last time! Was going to things with alcohol weekly and just telling myself i was fine and thought I was. Friday the boy a part of things hit me hard and I caved. Lesson learned hit a meeting yesterday and hung out in the evening with a group of aa ladies with good soberiety. Today i meet with my sponsor. Lesson learned time to make that change in what I am choosing to do in my freetime. I have a few very close normie friends that support me no matter what but my fear is it’s going to distance my relationships with them. I can’t let that fear rule me and I must put my soberiety first. Have a great day my friends! Day 2!
I’m moving this to the lounge so it doesn’t offend anyone.
18 months. Well done , well done indeed. If I had a hat I would take it of and bow 
. Guess the downs are less down w/o b&b.
Thanks Ms … I hope I stick arround longer this time.
All the best … And I’ll try and follow
Less than a month until St. Patrick’s Day. Just in case you think going to the parade with your old drinking buddies and just sipping a coke zero is a good idea. It’s not.
Sometimes i end up in situations where people are drinking around me. At these times I don’t want to drink but I still feel miserable & annoyed around drinking. What is my risk factor?
Sounds like your chance of not having fun is pretty high. Some situations are unavoidable, however intentionally testing sobriety is what I’m referring to.
But, but…it looks like Guinness.
I’m an Irish kid from Boston. You don’t get more Irish than that, this side of the Atlantic. Know how I celebrate the monk who brought Christianity to Ireland?
I eat Corn Beef and Cabbage, which is an Irish-American thing, not an Irish thing, eat some soda bread with Irish butter, and call it good.
Never could figure out the connection between recognizing a saint, and puking in the gutter, but we’ll use any excuse to drink.
I love some corned beef and cabbage
Im gonna make Shepard’s Pie! And maybe watch the Leprechaun movies 
Kerrygold butter 
corned beef and cabbage is good enough to eat every day
And Kerrygold Dubliner Cheese!
Now I want corn beef and cabbage lol
Make up some colcannon and be gone with ye.
Corn beef hash yum yum
Let’s zombie thread this. Seems like a good day to talk about the stupidity of testing your sobriety. This isn’t a game. It’s life or death. Just because you barely survived going to one bar doesn’t mean you will the next time.
I understand both sides of it.
I get it, why keep playing with fire? People with peanut allergies shouldnt hang with elephants.
I also get, its a pain to some people, to know youre at the mercy of something in life. I personally hate that feeling.
However, it opens a lot of more complicated issues. Why drink non alcohol beers? Isnt that ‘teasing’ yourself? Do you not go to october fest to watch the weenie dog races because everyone there is drinking? Why is there a patch for smokers but no patch for drinkers?
I believe in the end you know what you can and cant do, if you are on the edge, then dont do it.
I personally went wine tasting yesterday, hear me out before the yelling at me lol. I swirled it in my mouth and spit it out into the container(wifey wanted to try it so i went with her). However, i always hated wine, so there was never even a thought of, “omg, imma drink this whole bottle!”
However, if it was whiskey tasting, id be on the floor… thats why i dont even play with whiskey.
Thats my two cents on the subject. Just be honest with yourself.
But isn’t step one where we admit that we are powerless over alcohol and that our lives have become unmanageable?
So in light of this should we not be thinking in that way at all.
I can no longer drink alcohol. If I do I will, eventually, loose my family, my home, my job, my life!
So it now no longer really bothers me. Yes there are times I think about it, but ever watchful, I deny the thought.
No testing in my sober plan.
Some people never come to terms with step 1. The most important step of them all.
