just wondering if we have any sober or practicing drunks out there?

me:

then: drunk 11 years straight
now: sober 27 years

david in socal

 

Sober...1 hour
Drunk...Always

 

Sober since birth that was a few years ago back in the 60s.

 

I drank fairly steadily thru high school and the first of college, I quit after I quit my job in a convience store, now I drink one or two a week usually with dinner.

 

I go through phases... been on the wagon for about 3 months or so...

 

I have to admit I like the sauce.

Gotta pace myself though to keep my liver in decent shape if I want to continue it into my older years.

Moderation is key!

 

you are correct.... moderation is the key. i love beer and have a couple every day but i can't remember the last time i was drunk.


britt

 

David, why do you ask?
I think most people have at least one Vice, most of my family was or is addicted to one thing or another. Gambiling is the hot thing around here to waste your life and money away on. I don't drink too much very often, but "escape" every once in a while through other means.

 

Alcoholism runs in my family. I watched the ol man loose everything to booze including his 4 sons. He died a very lonley old man. No thanks.

 

I use to have 3-4 every day. Then started watching some friends with problems, all had to much alcohol. Now 2-3 a week is all.

Getting so I like D-2 fumes.

 

I'm a reformed crack head.

 

been dry six months this week. was hittin it too hard for too long. i'd like to enjoy just a few after dinner, but i'm not there yet. beer was/is like potato chips to me...can't have just one , so, till i can, i have none.
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Ahhh, someone calling me? Whas upp?

 

i could never quit for myself,

then i embarassed my wife, oddly enough, at a car club meeting on a sunday afternoon.

been sober since then.

Like pjsnyder76 said, wasted TOO many years of my life.

lost some good years with my kids.

 

When you have alot of Irish in you and both of your grandfathers died of complications from excessive alcohol intake it makes you think about what you are doing.

When I found out many years ago that between my genes and my metabolism and my size, at that time, that I could drink most people under the table and not feel the effects I realized that the combination was not conducive to being successful in life.

My parents both came from alcohol-broken homes so they never drank - they let me and my brothers know it would not be tolerated but let us learn for ourselves the lesson that only experience can teach. When it became apparent to me that it was very expensive to catch and keep a buzz on any kind of regular basis I decided that I would spend my money and brain cells a little more wisely.

My sincere wish is that those of you who have fallen off the wagon for whatever reason find the intestinal fortitude to claw, scratch, and fight your way back ontot the wagon. Life is too short and to precious to spend it in a fog.