Stay strong. Your sobriety is the important part.
Has your life become better, more enjoyable while sober?
Be aware of your heart and not your thoughts. Our hearts guide us through our true feelings and give us the ability to put action into our lives through healthy thoughts.
Without our hearts to guide our thoughts. Those thoughts tend to be guided by our addictions and addictive behaviors, etc…
Some people don’t suffer from alcoholism/addiction yet they still enter into a new life of sobriety for those they love and care about, and if the relationship doesn’t work out they are able to go back to normal drinking without it effecting theirs or others lives.
Food for thought 
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Chia, this was so help. Thank you so much for sharing your story with me.
Dave! Thank you so much. You put a lot of wisdom and insight into my situation with your suggestions. I love hearing that you’re happily married now. Considering this as a blessing is definitely a new perspective I’m going to take.
Gary I really appreciate you sharing your experience, strength and hope. It was very helpful to read. I have often thought that maybe his purpose was to open that door into sobriety, and that purpose has been served. It’s hard in the moment to think that the hard feelings will pass, but when you said feeling the discomfort is a sign that the growth has already begun really hit something for me. Thank you.
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I tried to get sober to save a relationship. I wouldn’t call her a catalyst though. It was do something about drinking or else! When I got sober for a few months, or else happened anyway. And sobriety didn’t, because I did it for someone else.
After reflecting on that and accepting that I’m an alcoholic and truly wanted to be sober and doing the work it takes I got sober and have stayed sober for over a decade. That said, I still thank her for her suggestion every year on my anniversary. We have a better friend relationship than we ever did when we were married.
You are welcome. I sent you a friend request. Just hit me up if you want to talk more about it. Keep your head held high.
Happens Relationships are like that, my partner was a catalyst into making me High…I left that relationship and am on my own. My 2 cents are just to believe in yourself , you have your own will power and confidence, use it when things get tough!!! We cannot lead dependent lives, we are better than this !!! All the best for your journey!!!
I feel that. But alcohol won't offer you any benefits, and your body will just have to purge the poison even if you don't take it real far and make things worse. Stay focused on what you want out of life my friend.
Please don't give up! I was alcohol free for one year and said f'it and drank, 1.5 years later and I'm still struggling to qyit drinking. It's so much easier to stay sober than to get sober.
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