Hi
I'm clambering and I've been alcohol dependent much of the time since I had my kids (who are now 8 and 9), and use drink regularly to calm my anxieties before that. At the moment, I am drinking at weekends but not in the week. And loving my clearheaded week days.
shake welcome on board, things will and can get better, lots of us here know that.
Helpmenow I think the email is sensitive and kind, as well as being morally the right thing to do. Before I started to sort myself out, but while I was starting to enquire/think, I'd have been touched and thought provoked, and may well have got courage up to talk to you.
Gerald is a Double Decker - I'm 47 and I remember Double Deckers too, love it.
legal thanks for trying on the pm, no it did not get through. I'm having similar weekend struggles, I think that weekend drinking can work for some people, but I am not sure if I am one of them yet. Want to keep trying a bit longer though.
Isinde I think you are having a tough time at the mo? Did you hear about that contract that you went for yet? Did you do your KY jelly talk???? Re sleeping:
DS number one not the best sleeper at all, but things got much better when he went to school: he seems to need cognitive as well as physical tiredness. He used to wake us at least once in the night for reassurance. Now, except in Summer hols, he very very rarely does. He sometimes gets anxious just about not being able to get to sleep, and though not cuddly in day, he is v cuddly and needy last thing in evening. He likes stories of when I used to stay on my grandma's farm when a little girl (Grandma was called Grandma Moo, and is all you would expect of someone with that name, just a lovely kind strong farming woman), and also we do breathing and body scans a la Jon Kabat Zinn which he really finds helpful, I think he naturally goes to over analytic or worried places, whereas DS number one tells me he just 'pictures black' and goes to sleep, lucky monkey....
hugs to all babes struggling away, being a parent is tough.