My Attempt at Sobriety - Page 3

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5:29p, 6/16/25

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Thank yall, gonna try and beat the previous length of 31 days

Gonna be hard especially leaving for a beach vacation next week.

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In reply to FTACo88-FDT24dad • 5:30p, 6/16/25

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FTACo88-FDT24dad said:
KNM2020 said:
I screwed up yesterday.

Time to restart the count. Day 1 is almost complete (again). Definitely regret it.

Regret is progress. Keep looking forward.

Have you glanced at the 12 steps just to see what they're all about?

Thank you, I did glance at this briefly awhile back

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In reply to KNM2020 • 6:08p, 6/16/25

KNM2020 said:
Thank yall, gonna try and beat the previous length of 31 days

Gonna be hard especially leaving for a beach vacation next week.

Hate to break it to you, but life is always going to be throwing "good" drinking opportunities at you.

Your brain is looking for these types of chances to trick you - milestones, celebrations, etc. It will play whatever games it needs to to pull you back in.

Until you make NOT drinking your habit/default setting, you have to be wary of this.

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In reply to CC09LawAg • 8:00a, 6/17/25

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CC09LawAg said:
KNM2020 said:
Thank yall, gonna try and beat the previous length of 31 days

Gonna be hard especially leaving for a beach vacation next week.

Hate to break it to you, but life is always going to be throwing "good" drinking opportunities at you.

Your brain is looking for these types of chances to trick you - milestones, celebrations, etc. It will play whatever games it needs to to pull you back in.

Until you make NOT drinking your habit/default setting, you have to be wary of this.

You are very right

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In reply to KNM2020 • 8:19a, 6/17/25

AG

Keep at it. When I first started, I was sober for six months when I went on a work trip where there was a lot of drinking. I didn't drink while on the trip, but on the flight home convinced myself I didn't have a problem and that I was just a binge drinker and had cured myself of that. Plus, it was the start of football season so I stopped on the way home from the airport and bought myself a nice bottle of whiskey. I then proceeded to go on a two week bender that taught me I really had a problem. At that point, alcohol scared me. I now have ten years of sobriety. One day at a time. You can do this.

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In reply to KNM2020 • 10:32a, 6/17/25

KNM2020 said:
I screwed up yesterday.

Time to restart the count. Day 1 is almost complete (again). Definitely regret it.

I'm in the midst of working through an addiction as well. It's been tough cause it's so prevalent it's everywhere but you have to look at this through the lens of progress, not perfection.

What I'm getting at is you did a fantastic job getting to 31 days and you didn't screw up, it was just a reset. I've made it 3 weeks without what's in my inner circle for "acting out" a couple of times and that's the longest I've been. My sponsor has a good way of putting it, it's not about perfection….its about progress. Even 1 day without alcohol on your end is progress. Stick with it and the more you will learn about yourself and about your addiction. Try not to live with regret but instead just learn from what made you take that drink. Pinpoint those feelings or thoughts that sent you to take that drink. That way next time you can try and beat those feelings/thoughts before they take hold.

Good job making it to 31 days. Hell of a feat.

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In reply to aggiejim70 • 3:53p, 6/17/25

aggiejim70 said:
I've been reading these posts with a great deal of fascination. If I don't drink and don't die before 26 August, I'll celebrate 34 1/2 years sober in AA. The vast majority of these posts remind me of a line from the Big Book of AA. I'm too lazy to look it up, so this an approximate quote. "The obsession of every abnormal drinker is somehow, someday, he's going to learn how to control and enjoy his drinking". That nailed me. In my quarter century of drinking, from high school into my forties, if I enjoyed it, I didn't control it, if I controlled it, I didn't enjoy it.

Quitting for good and all was the best option for me.

Spent a couple of decades doing this.

Sober for over 4 years now.

I am not trying to make it to year 5. Just making it through today. Sometimes I just make it through the hour.

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