i want to quit. i quit for a year and went back. then i quit for about 7 months and went back. i want and need to quit for good. also, i feel ashamed that my twin sons have seen me drink at inappropriate times and places. please help.
Support during a time like this is, I feel, really important. As I suggested earlier, please give AA a call, get some one on one support there, go to a meeting as soon as you're able and get to know some women, get some phone numbers. Quitting is so hard to do alone, but it is a "We" program, so find someone to help you, stay out of slippery places, and post here as much as you want. There's usually someone on with all the different time zones on this forum. Be good to yourself, Chris
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"Never argue with an idiot... They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience..."
Look in your local phone book and call the AA hotline... ask for the location of the nearest meeting, ask for the number to intergroup in your district and call for transportation if needed. Get to a meeting ASAP. The program works. For over three million alcoholics, it WORKS. It will work for you if you want it too. Between now and your first meeing... dont take a drink.
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My warranty on tomorrow has run out. My guarantee on the past is void. Nothing is going my way... and I like it like that.
Calling your local AA helpline will pop you back on the road to recovery and give you as much support as you need/want right now. Then, I would suggest getting to as many meetings as possible. If it weren't for meetings than this alcoholic would have no chance of staying sober.
I think that a lot of folk here haven't got sober and stayed sober first time around. I know that I certainly didn't. But, just hang in there one day at a time.
Please keep coming back and posting to let us know how it goes for you, won't you? There's usually somebody around who has been just where you are now.
Take care,
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
In and out, you're not alone. Many do it, have done it. The only requirement is the desire to stop drinking.........when you fall, get up and start over. Practice, practice, practice. It will come.......
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Well done Lynn, so glad you've given yourself a headstart already. Don't give up & keep at it! As suggested, picking up the phone to A.A. & making a move towards meetings & collecting & using female phone numbers is all good footwork towards your own sobriety & good efforts to gain the support you deserve. Keep going & letting us know how you are & how things are going too. Stick with it, Lynn, no doubt you've done better than you think. Small steps, baby steps, big leaps & bounds :) Thanks for joining us :D Good Luck & Best wishes, Danielle x
-- Edited by Sobrietyspell at 17:50, 2007-06-15
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