What boundaries do y'all make for yourselves regarding your sobriety

Recovery
#1

What boundaries do y'all make for yourselves regarding your sobriety ? Mine are no drug talk , or parties.

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#2

Big one for me is I don't go where drinking is.

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#3

Is that hard with most restaurants?

#4

It is a bit hard. I won't sit in the bar area at all, and if someone near me is drinking, I'm out.

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#5

How do you treat yourself ?

#6

Depends on my mood. Sometimes I go out to eat, sometimes I stay home. I'm weird that way.

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#7

Nothing negative in my surroundings.

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#8

What does that look like to you ?

#9

Everyone has celebrating a different way. What kind of food do you like?

#10

Looks like, you using, if you a dik, if you bring stupidity into my surroundings, you out of my vicinity. People, places, and things…negativity.

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#11

All of it. I'm a trained chef so I don't really have a favorite

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#12

I err on the side of caution. At first, I would not go anywhere where I may be tempted.

Now that I’m further along in my sobriety, I can be in some surroundings and remain comfortable, but I always have an escape plan in case I would become uncomfortable.

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#13

Places I used to pick up from

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#14

When am tempted to drink,I just think about how would I feel the next day and it works all the times

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#15

I only associate with other recovering alcoholics and my family. I keep old friends and places at a distance.

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#16

I do not drive through certain neighborhoods and street corners. I've deleted and blocked all dealer phone numbers

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#17

Good plan

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#19

When I got out of treatment I changed my phone number, deleted well over a hundred people from my phone. When I go to places I like to have somebody with me or somebody who will call and FaceTime me when I’m going alone (weddings, parties) I also have my chip in my pocket at all times.

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#20

I have to pray a lot.. I live next door to my brother and sister who are both addicts.. I carry a can of air freshener around with me because of the smell from my front porch and utility room.. it’s hard some days.. but when I’m having those bad days I go to AA and it helps a lot..

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#21

What ever works for you. I can talk about and I can socialize. What happened to me was that when I saw everything go wrong. I realize it wasn’t for me that life style was not working as much as I tried to make it work. So I took it completely out of my life style and tried some thing different. Any time you see or feel that something ain’t working out? That life telling you need to change

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