by stressedeng » Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:08 pm
Norma, you just started. Your partner is in the next room. My wife and daughter are God knows where. Demonstrate to your partner that you can stay sober. Don't expect miracles in the short term. Fix you first, I just started talking to my son today. He has had nothing to do with me and he is an intern at the company I work for. He comes into the engineering dept where I am the senior person and would ask someone else about how to perform a project. Not my first time Norma, I have went thru this a few times. The thing is, I am here. And so are many others who post or just read. My son asked me today why he should believe I am going to get this demon out of my soul, and honestly I could not answer. I don't know how much or how often you drank, but you are on the right path. Funny thing is people who love you want you back the way you are when you are sober. Go to a few meetings a week, the days you can't do a little shopping. Break your routine, the one that makes you want to drink. I stop a a pet store in our local mall, even my dog is gone. You are on this forum because you have the courage to face the demon, and demon it is. Try to make it to day 3, I don't like counting. For me it it is a new day, I think when you count it reminds us of those so called happier or mellow drinking days. Good luck, I often think about the sober people of the world who might have to give up that danish, coffee, chocolate. It's the same thing, only those things are not mind altering. My doctor says 70% of the world self medicates, the other 30% seek help. I wish you the very best and will be around.
Norma, you just started. Your partner is in the next room. My wife and daughter are God knows where. Demonstrate to your partner that you can stay sober. Don't expect miracles in the short term. Fix you first, I just started talking to my son today. He has had nothing to do with me and he is an intern at the company I work for. He comes into the engineering dept where I am the senior person and would ask someone else about how to perform a project. Not my first time Norma, I have went thru this a few times. The thing is, I am here. And so are many others who post or just read. My son asked me today why he should believe I am going to get this demon out of my soul, and honestly I could not answer. I don't know how much or how often you drank, but you are on the right path. Funny thing is people who love you want you back the way you are when you are sober. Go to a few meetings a week, the days you can't do a little shopping. Break your routine, the one that makes you want to drink. I stop a a pet store in our local mall, even my dog is gone. You are on this forum because you have the courage to face the demon, and demon it is. Try to make it to day 3, I don't like counting. For me it it is a new day, I think when you count it reminds us of those so called happier or mellow drinking days. Good luck, I often think about the sober people of the world who might have to give up that danish, coffee, chocolate. It's the same thing, only those things are not mind altering. My doctor says 70% of the world self medicates, the other 30% seek help. I wish you the very best and will be around.