Wine seems to be my best friend :( I think I need a new one!

[Welshcakesareyum]

I think I rely on wine too much. I have a busy schedule (student nurse) and I'm a single parent so do not socialise at all. So wine is my best friend. I know that sounds silly but its true, like company. If I'm stressed = wine. Happy = wine. Sad = wine. It hides every emotion. Just numbs them
I guess.
I have put on weight and feel pretty yuck recently. Im also thinking, I have no life, I'm pretty boring (And lonely). I'm thinking of giving it up completely. I have tried cutting down but just find an excuse everytime.
Has anyone done this? Any advice? This is going to be a very hard habit to quit!

THIS THREAD is a great support for people wanting to quit alcohol.
Have a read and get some advice over there.
Many people on there have experience of this.

Thankyou :)

I feel the same. I barely exist in this life, I've been single for three years and I have no interest in dating. I live for my children and turn to the wine whenever they aren't here. Christmas has been awful. I haven't seen my DC since Christmas day.
I haven't even bothered getting up for the last 48 hours, been no point. Phone hasn't rang, not a single text in that time.

I have friends but they're so busy with there own family lives I don't get a second thought.
Honestly if i didn't have my children I wouldn't be here. I'd have given up for sure.
Loneliness is soul destroying

Bearhunter3126 I really do know how you feel. It can be so lonely and wine seems to numb that pain. I am single too and being sat here tbis Christmas whilst my dc's were with their dad, I thought, things have got to change. It's not right, we need to look after ourselves to be able to look after others. Also when our dc's get a little older, we will need a life too.
Let's make a new year plan?