DRY 16

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If you're quitting alcohol for a brighter sober future come and join us here. A very welcoming bunch supporting each other every step of the way.

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Bg, the drugs are called Antabuse- I've heard stories, some not so good, but you know yourself better than anyone. If you don't think you need it don't take it.

As for me I am sitting in my marital house tonight, dw is here, dsd is here and dc is here. I'm hoping that I haven't caused too much damage with my drinking and can get them back.

Merry (sober) Christmas everyone!!

This time last year I'd moved onto my second bottle of prosecco and pressed start on a four day binge. This year I am enjoying a lazy morning of stollen and coffee in bed with wonderful OH.

thank you all for your amazing support.

Happy sober Christmas everyone! I can't quite believe I went for a 7am run on Xmas day! Stay strong everyone through the relatives pushing booze on you/making strange comments /surely just one won't hurt on Christmas day type stuff!

We got this.

Hope you all really enjoy actually knowing what goes on past 4pm!

Well I'm sat in work....thankful and sober....had a good honest talk with DW - both of us sober (although) it was usually me that was drunk) all our problems are not solved, we are going to go to some counselling so hopefully marriage will be saved but only if we are both happy in it.

Dw gave me a hug as I was leaving for work, first time since September - I owe that to being sober. This is the best Christmas ever.

Well done user this sounds very positive, really happy to hear it.

I've got a rotten cold, shivers and fevers and dosed to the gills with paracetamol etc. Wine witch was jabbing me earlier, rational me saying "what? Are you serious?"

KOKO and merry Christmas to you all x

Merry Christmas.... 4 weeks sober today very happy bunny.....

Keep the faith, you're all awesome!!

I came close to throwing the towel in today. DS had emergency surgery last night/early hours of this morning. So we spent Christmas Eve night in hospital. He was frightened, in pain and upset in case he missed Christmas. I didn't sleep, ended up crying buckets this morning when the adrenaline faded.

We got home early this afternoon but all the way there I was thinking how much I wanted a drink. I felt that I deserved a bottle of wine and that it would give me a hit of festive cheer and some energy to get through the day. And I felt deprived of a happy Christmas.

Got home, cried a bit more. Told DH I'd sell a kidney for a bottle of prosecco. Had a sulk, a shower and a cup of tea. Then I decided that I don't want to have to do day 1 again.

So I'm sober (day 25), DS is asleep beside me and I'm going to have a cup of tea and a mince pie to celebrate my first dry Christmas since 2009.

Hope you've all had a great day.

First hangover free Christmas Day in a very long time

Sorry to hear Rrross well done for not drinking - it's only temporary relief which is not worth it for how terrible you'd feel the next day. Hope DS is on the mend

Thanks cookie. He slept like a log last night - we both did. I know the last couple of days would have been a car crash with drink involved. I know I couldn't have coped with the situation and DH would have had to do everything while I used the stress as an excuse to get drunk. So life is better but difficult moments crop up and it's tempting to do the easy thing. Very fortunate to have you lot and DH to talk to when it all gets a bit much

Hi rrrosss, glad to hear you beat the Wine Witch last night, and even happier to hear that DS is in the mend. You have made a massive step, just think if you can beat her in something like this you can beat her in anything.

Long time lurker, dry since May, sometimes post

This is a me me me post but the non tetotal fuckers have drunk my treat drink for boxing day dinner. Which is a repeat of yesterday as my dh decided that we (me) would make boxing day a christmas day for our dsd and grandchild, because she couldn't make christmas day. Too busy with the other sides of the families. Stress central 101. My family haven' t even seen me over christmas. Toerags the lot of them. Thankful to be sober, at least I'll be able to guard my tongue!!

Hi Louise, wait til they're drunk and give em hell, then blame them tomorrow - tell them they were drunk and aren't remembering properly, really mess with their heads lol.

Hi all, checking in, sober yesterday, sober and ill today :( God imagine coughing and spluttering like this with a hangover as well :( shudders at the thought
Day 99 for me today on this time around :) intend it to be last day 99 I do, just want to keep going onwards as it feels so much better, sober.
Hope all of you had a good Christmas so far xxx

User so glad for you :)
rrross hugs sounds horrible. Glad you are home and hope DS feels better soonest x
Everyone else koko xxx

Checking in, tattoos here with a nc.

Day one. Again Yesterday was a big fat fail as were a couple of days previous.

Was very hungover and emotional this morning. Haven't shifted from under the duvet on the sofa all day, battling with that awful anxiety I always get with a hangover. Stark contrast to my 6 miles boxing day run last year

Spent the morning relogging into recovery forums and I've looked up a contact number for some RL support. Something isn't working and AA just makes me feel 'oh at least I'm not that bad', How quickly I forget that even though I'm not daily drinking I can put away a hell of a lot when I do and have no off button on the whole.

I feel so ashamed that I have a problem with alcohol but I can't quit trying to quit.

Rrross, I'm glad your ds is ok and you coped with it sober, well done.

vidorra hi again. Self care, water, vitamins and some nice food, and maybe tomorrow have a think what you could add in that would support you so another lapse doesn't happen? Hugs, anyway xxx

Thank you sobersarah. I have drank loads of fluids today and forced some party oven food in me. Vitamins aren't a bad call. Thought my anxiety was abating but just after a little health panic there. Why the hell do I do this to myself repeatedly??

Anyone on the soberistas website? I used to be when it was free, thinking about rejoining. Is it ok or not worth paying for?

I haven't renewed. I find Club Soda and Belle really helpful as well as Sober Sassy Life. I did a long post a page or two back about useful websites?

Found it "sarah, that's a fantastic post. Really helpful and a few things on it that I haven't come across yet, like the app. Must start doing Headspace again myself.

Excellent :) Glad I could be of help :)

Today I realised that a major reason why I drink is to cope with stressful social situations!

It was so hard having the family over with all the same old family dynamic reducing you to feeling like a child again. I drink to steel myself against all that.

I want to be like you lot in a year's time. Here's hoping.

Less than just don't drink today, follow that mantra and it will happen soon enough!

sobersarah thanks, not 100% sure all is fixed or ever will be, but I'm hopeful. At the time of writing you have 20 mins to the century. MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS

user thanks :) 100 days woo hoo go me :)

Am I sad because I stayed up, just so I could post that? 😁