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| journeytoserenity |
Posted - November 02 2002 : 8:55:10 PM
There was always an excuse: If not to dull the pain; Then to heighten the celebration!
Reason to drink: Family Problems
Reason NOT to drink: Family Problems
Reason to drink: Money Problems
Reason NOT to drink: Money Problems
Reason to drink: Problems on the job.
Reason NOT to drink: Problems on the job.
Plus a load of others........
It's not my fault.
I didn't create these problems.
You don't know what its like being being me.
I can't help it, my father was a drunk, and I take after him.
You don't understand.
I can quit anytime I want.
I drink a little - so what?
Everybody drinks now and then.
With a marriage like mine, what do you expect?
You have no idea what I've been through.
Do I try to tell you how to live your life?
You just don't want me to have any fun.
I'd lose all my friends if I stop drinking.
Go preach to someone else.
I don't need your advice or help.
What would you know?
It's my birthday.
Here's to you Santa, Easter Bunny, or (fill in the blank).
I just lost my best friend.
I just lost my job.
I just lost my best dog.
I just lost my wife.
I just lost my husband.
I just lost my kids.
I just lost my car.
I just lost my home.
I just lost.
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Anyone else have some good "reasons"?? 
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Posted - November 07 2002 : 08:51:43 AM
I drank for every reason under the sun.
But I first starting drinking to fit in. I wanted to be liked and I wanted to feel like I belonged. Then I was drinking for the fun. And I did have a lot of fun earlier. Then I found myself drinking to get drunk. Not that I had set out to get drunk, it would just end up that way. Then I drank because I couldn't stop. I needed to drink. No matter how much I didn't want to drink, I couldn't fight the obsession. It got to the point, I would be thinging of my next drink before I even finished what I had. I drank like a pig and I got drunk like an alcoholic.
Harry
What I am is God's gift to me.
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| journeytoserenity |
Posted - November 06 2002 : 10:33:27 PM
I drank because I loved OBLIVION!!!!! I preferred to call it being "Comfortably Numb"!!!
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"We see things NOT as THEY are - but as WE are."
"If you keep thinking things are going to be bad, you stand a good chance at becoming a Prophet." |
| John96 |
Posted - November 06 2002 : 09:49:28 AM
Thanks for the topic!!! I haven't thought about this for a long time.
Originally the drinking was because my parents showed me that partying is fun and something adults do- and I wanted to be a MAN. Although I worked hard at doing well in school, the crowd I ran around with after school was what most would call "rough"- I of course thought it was the "cool" guys/gals. College started teaching me that because we worked hard we should play wild and hard. After graduating the person I worked directely under and I would drink beer and play pool at least 3 nights a week. He had what I wanted- power, status, yada yada yada.
Next period of life: got married and went from a single guy with single guy finances (meaning bills) to a family of four (wife had 2 children from previous marriage). This meant I was poor- lucky to afford a couple of beers a month.
Next period of life: children older so wife can start working and my income increases. This is the period that the alcoholism develops. I find that life isn't how I WOULD HAVE CREATED IT. I work extremely hard but I'm not financially rewarded at the level I should be. Job responsibilities increase logarhythmically which requires long hours at work. I become involved in the community and people just don't have the vision I do- sometimes they even disagree with me. All of this takes time therefor I MUST relax in shorter and shorter amounts of free time. Alcohol starts becoming more and more of a problem. Suddenly (not really), alcohol takes over my life. All things are planned around the ability to drink: holidays, dinners, celebrations, vacations, days off.
At "the end," the only sober time left was from when I woke up in the morning until I got off work when I could take my first drink of the day from under the car seat. And I knew that soon it would start in the last time available to increase my drinking time- during work. I contacted AA.
Thanks for letting me share.....John96
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| notplastered |
Posted - November 04 2002 : 2:16:40 PM
I love people who give reasons for drinking. Most of the time I didn't have a reason I just did. Sometimes I even amazed myself before I was half way through getting drunk. How the heck did I get started?, I would wonder.
Habit, maybe.
Feelings or not feelings, sometimes.
Most of the time I didn't care. You either could laugh with me or laugh at me. I drank in my house and NOBODY could tell me what to do there!
I had to come to AA to learn that I drank because I'm an alcoholic.
Know what? I'm grateful that I am.
AA I O U |
| Samf |
Posted - November 04 2002 : 12:22:07 PM
Thanks, Patsy!!
Only one honest reason...that is the truth!
I know I drank for the effect. I loved that sense of ease I felt.
I did not want to feel anything, sometimes, either.
Then it started turning on me.
The doctor's opinon hit me hard when I read it.
I'm so grateful for that being there!
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| Patsyd1 |
Posted - November 04 2002 : 06:13:23 AM
Hi all,
I drank because it was raining out, and then I drank because the rain cleared up LOL
Seriously? I honestly believed at that time that I drank because I was soooooo deeply hurt and in so much emotional pain.
I know today that I drank because I didn't have a choice NOT to... and I didn't want to "feel" anything at all.
The real reason I drank is even simplier than that... Hi my name is Patsy, and I am an alcoholic
I had many many excuses to drink, but only one honest reason.
Love to you all
Patsy
Failed 12 Step Call? Not if we walk away sober! |
| Samf |
Posted - November 02 2002 : 9:43:41 PM
The sun was shining.
It was cloudy.
I was lonely.
I was in pain!! If you'd had to bear what I'd had to bear....
To celebrate!!
It was national potato day!!
My parents drank.
I was an abused child.
I just lost my job, marriage.
Goes on and on!!
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