Just like last year, today is my 29 th anniversary of my sobriety. Just thought I'd share.
Just like last year, today is my 29 th anniversary of my sobriety. Just thought I'd share.
Last edited by paul cottingham; 01-29-2013 at 1:14 PM.
Paul
Congratulations...... Good job.
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Great ain't it? You and I have the same amount of time in. I could have tiled the bathroom with white chips until "Somethin' snapped."
Congratulations Paul.
Congratulations. I teared up @ this a little. I know how hard addictions can be to break. Does it ever get easier than one-day-at-a-time?
I quit smoking 29 years ago this Spring; smartest thing I've ever done.
I quit counting at somewhere around 35. All I can remember is that it was about the time my oldest son was born. He just turned 40 the other day.
So I must be approaching the 40 year mark.
Nice job Paul. It gets tough some days.
The Woodworking Hermit.
For me, no. I still remember what beer and bourbon tasted like, and I miss them. It was tough going through the brain surgeries I did without narcotics, for example (plain tylenol rules!) but I am literally terrified of slipping.
I don't have another sober in me.
on the other hand I know a few people who never looked back.
Paul
Congratulations Paul. Nice job.
Congratulations, an outstanding achievement that you should be extremely proud of............Regards, Rod.
Keep on truckin'.
Yes, Prashun, it does get easier. It says in the Big Book of AA, I'm paraphrasing, the before we are half way through the compulsion to drink will be magically remove without one even realizing it.
My personality is such that its easier if I still struggle. Nowhere near as much as when I first sobered up, of course. A paradox for sure. I know people who fell back, cause "getting and staying sober is easy."
Paul
Paul, Keep up the good fight. You are rightly proud of a huge accomplishment. Best personal regards, Patrick
Well done, Paul!
I talk openly about my sobriety not out of a sense of pride, but instead, out of self preservation. I have found that if I am open about the fact that I am a drunk, in my mind, I am "accountable" to everyone I have been open with.
It makes sense to me, anyways....:-)
Paul