Strongly recommend Allan Carr's Easyway - works for me. She may be making it a lot harder than it needs to be.
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Sober since 1992. I own my home, my car and my life. If I still had the alcohol, I'd have nothing.
Get ready for new friends. Old happy hour and weekend party friends fall by the wayside, they don't like being around the sober and you will recognize them for the loud, story repeating drunks that they are.
Life is good and only gets better sober. Good luck.
Get ready for new friends. Old happy hour and weekend party friends fall by the wayside, they don't like being around the sober and you will recognize them for the loud, story repeating drunks that they are.
Life is good and only gets better sober. Good luck.
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I know this is totally off topic but what a great story about Peter O'Toole.
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I've read many memoirs, my favorite genre in fact. Mrs. Bercaw's willingness to bare all to her reader really touched me. Such a stunning read, this book. It leaves me wanting to know more and more about the details of her journey. I do so hope to be able to chat with her across a table of tea for hours.
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If it makes you feel any better, I too had to give up drinking--and I'm NOT an alcoholic...my system just cannot handle alcohol anymore--stomachache troubles, etc...everything you described. I bet you'll feel sooo good when you stop drinking that you wish you would've stopped drinking sooner. It is a bite though from this point of view--EVERYTHING we do revolves around partying! So it IS a bit boring when everyone else is boozin and cruisin! My husband and I don't go out Linder used to, but I sure feel better.
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good luck! It will be worth it!
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Oh Nancy, what a journey it is. I feel such kinship though we've never met. I don't know the exact path of your personal journey yet (though I am going to track it down), but all of us who walked that direction carrying the knowledge of certain destruction and death if we don't attempt it share a great many things. I have eleven sober years, and there was a time when an hour was asking a lot. I can and must live without alcohol though I will never be "normal". I salute us.
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As someone who drank daily for about 25 years and has been sober almost as long, I hope Ms. Bercaw submits a follow-up piece on how successful she was with her approach to quitting drinking. I know I couldn't have done it on my own.
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You could buy the book. This being Ms. Bercaw's latest book, this excerpt likely is her publisher's marketing exercise? Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it reads like professional authoring to me.
I am reading the book and its clear you are correct, but the professional writer of this July 7th story is likely either the author, or a damn fine editor who knows that author ands her work.
Alcohol memoirs are as common as memoirs themselves, but this excerpt is riveting stuff.
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Loved this excerpt, wanted more. Loved the clarity of the moment of catastrophe, when life is about to change.
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Nancy,
You are so lucky to be married to someone who really loved you - really loved you. My husband walked out on me and took my daughter away from me and alienated my friends, even after I quit. It probably doesn't feel very lucky, and I don't know the rest of the story, but at least you had someone on your team. Good luck with your recovery. We all need all the help we can get in the face of this monstrous disease.
You are so lucky to be married to someone who really loved you - really loved you. My husband walked out on me and took my daughter away from me and alienated my friends, even after I quit. It probably doesn't feel very lucky, and I don't know the rest of the story, but at least you had someone on your team. Good luck with your recovery. We all need all the help we can get in the face of this monstrous disease.
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Nancy,
God Bless You! I hope that you at sometime will have a relationship with your daughter. Too bad that your husband was unable to join you with his love and support...but you did it!
God Bless You! I hope that you at sometime will have a relationship with your daughter. Too bad that your husband was unable to join you with his love and support...but you did it!
Wow. A great story. Also a great teaser: I've ordered the book to learn how she succeeded in cutting her ties with alcohol. My dad, now 97, was alcohol sensitive and left the family in my mid-teens. We're all reconciled, but I've never asked him how he eventually managed to stay away from alcohol.
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Why not?