The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 2

winebox

BB, MP, PBT, thank you, am blubbing now!! But in a positive way - it's good to have that release sometimes. I'm very bad at letting stuff out (despite my posts!!) I'll have a bottle of wine rather than face up to my true feelings which stay - excuse the pun - bottled up.

Thanks again - here's to the last week of jan xxxx

winebox

A thought that occurred, hope you don't mind me asking MP, but how on earth did you deal with being an accountant / doing tax returns back when you were drinking? No offence meant lol but nightmare to lots of us at most astute of times....

budget_babe

THIS IS FOR WINEBOX....

The Nightingale

Warm and tender is my fathers love
As he stays and watches over me in the sky up above
A precious love that I hold dear
A single wish to hold you near

A chance to say how much I care
Just how much I miss you, now your not there
And each night when I go to sleep
Loving memories of you I will always keep

And as morning comes and I hear the nightingale sing
You come and gently wrap me in your angel wings
You tell me that your spirit is free
As you fly high in the sky watching over me

Hugs
It is a poem I wrote for my friend on the anniversay of her mothers death. I gave it to her with an angel called: thinking of you by: Willow Tree.

I too am emotional and tend to write my feelings down in the form of a poem.

I hope this poem gives you some comfort, didn't think of it until pbt posted link.
I am sure your father is in the sky watching over you. xxx

Needstochange

Hey winebox buddy - please dont be hard on yourself you are trying to cut down at one, if not the, hardest time of your life. Respect girl:A

polaroid

Hi guys, just read through.

WB, sending hugs. i cant even start to imagine how you are feeling. xxx

BB - beautiful poem. made me cry. hope it helps wb a bit

trc - hope you had a great birthday night, its sounds like you controlled it and enjoyed it.

i have not been good. on friday night i had a girls night out planned and i had already decided i was going to drink. i am so shocked about how quickly my tolerance has gone and its really scared me. i got drunk really quicky and i felt totally dreadful yesterday. luckily i realised how drunk i was and took myself home relatively early. but really (for me:o ) i had not drunk much.

i dont really know what to do about this binge thing. i am doing really well through the week, but come weekends......

hope everyone else is ok ??? xxx

mollypolly

winebox wrote: »

A thought that occurred, hope you don't mind me asking MP, but how on earth did you deal with being an accountant / doing tax returns back when you were drinking? No offence meant lol but nightmare to lots of us at most astute of times....

I honestly dont know the answer to this question, and I do wonder myself, although I did have to rewrite a fair few sheets of analysis in the morning due to spilling red wine etc:eek:

I think that we as drinkers may function on a different level doing what we have to because we have to.
When I think back over the years at the driving, work, shopping ...even going to church (dropped prayer book twice):o under the influence I am so ashamed but still am amazed at how I have lived through it all.......
Was that really me!!!!

Back to work now (Yawn):D
Take care everyone.
Love Mollypolly.xxxx

winebox

BB thank you darling - household tissue shortage here! NTC & Polaroid, thank you too. Ooh dear!! Will be OK. Just woke up guess where, but look! Early!! On way to bed. Goodnight all. Don't let the calculator overheat MP

RecoveringAlcoholic

ITV1 tonight @ 8 p.m.

Ed Mitchell: What Happened Next.

The story of the former ITN newsreader's attempt to beat alcoholism,

Different_Corner

paybacktime2008 wrote: »

I finished my bottle of wine last night. Got irritable with DS. thought to myself what a waste of time this is.

Payback, thats exactly how I felt Friday night, two cans of budweiser, thought I 'deserved' it whilst watching Big Bro. Got irritable with teenage son when he comes in from his night out and starts nitpicking with youngest. Don't like what I become under the slightest influence.

AF all weekend, and plans to be so rest of the week.

Winebox, thoughts with you. I suddenly lost my DH of 20 years last year and admit I was relying on alcohol each night. As budget babe says words just don't do it.

Please don't expect too much from yourself, cry when you want to and need to, drink lots of water to replenish those fluids.

Bismarck

graemecarter wrote: »

Not drinking can seem boring sometimes, though you're busy and doing stuff, you are rarely bored. Sobriety gives you more free time, so you need to fill it with stuff to do.

It is easy to glamorise drinking, and then you get into the mindset that everyone else is having a better time than you.
However, my reality was I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.
Tired of the headaches, the sick feeling in my stomach, the lying, wet beds, and trouble at home & work.
I mustn't forget why I stopped drinking.
If I pick up a drink, my past becomes my future

hi all!

well done everyone in keeping going through a tricky weekend.....

25/25 for me please and a special thanks to GC for his words:

some great stuff there....

been busy this weekend sorting out some long outstanding jobs and it feels great to have made progress...

take care all