Should I have a Drink ...its been almost 3 weeks
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Folks ...I've managed to stay off for 3 weeks by throwing all my booze at home barring a single day at a friends place where i finished the bottle (luckily it was only half full ) ...I am having an extended weekend this week with 6 days off ...I am considering getting a bottle for the weekend and moderately having a drink or 2 ...whats the advice folks ...am i asking for trouble knowing my weak will power ...
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cycad sandy83111
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No. Push any thoughts of drinking aside and see it as part of the disease - the disease of addiction - alcoholism. Why don't you go to AA? The support there really helped me in a lot of different ways, I'll never forget that. They will welcome you into the fold as a long lost sister.
tess33005 cycad
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Or try The Sinclair Method. That has worked brilliantly for many on this site.
Good luck and please think hard about the 'cheat days'.
You said it yourself - CHEAT DAY.
'Cheating' is NOT part of recovery.
Occasional relapses are - and they are random and happen to lots of people who are committed to giving up alcohol.
But you're making PLANS to cheat.
Oh dear. Please keep posting and remember we're all on your side, Sandy, even though I wrote this reply to seanettle. (Typical Tess.)
I do think you need to rethink this, Sandy.
Lots of love from Tess.
Oh and well done to seanettle!!
cycad tess33005
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Yes, all the best Sandy!
tess33005 sandy83111
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So, Sandy, how are you now? I hope you make the right choices but I appreciate it's difficult when you have AUD.
I sincerely hope that you take the comments on board about planning to 'cheat'
You know it won't help you, my love, but the decision is yours to make
Love Tess xxxxxxxx
gwen45436 sandy83111
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Hi Sandy, what I say is it was inevitable; but glad you kept it to minimum drinks - that's one thing anyway.
I understand where you are coming from, I have been trying to slash my drinking for years and could not, it just got more and more each day and I loved it. Very very hard to stop it. You sound like you really want to get this under control, as I did, but that you are not ready to push alcohol out of your life. You need to want it bad. I actually don't want to be abstinent. Life, for me, would be boring without a small amount to look forward to. If health tells me otherwise, well that is a different thing and it would have to go.
Since I have come on this forum I have gone from 2 bottles of wine a night to 1 small glass as a nightcap and I am loving it. The thought of my organs not "working the nightshift" whilst I am in bed at night, but resting like I am, is so mind changing it is untrue. I am coming to the end of three weeks now. This is because of the honesty on here and the horror stories they have humbled me with. What an eye opener and that is what prompted me. I have never felt as strongly before, Patient UK has been my lightbulb moment.
It will come to you when you are ready, just keep helping it along and listening to these guys, they mean you love, health and happiness.
Keep posting, whether you are winning or failing - it don't matter, we all have somewhere down the line.
Hugs.
Gwen
joel66 sandy83111
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