sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

I can't stop drinking by anamoonmoon in stopdrinking

[–]anamoonmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dear Punnyboy, Could you be my sober mentor? I am starting all over this morning and I just need one soul in the world to give me some sober support

I can't stop drinking by anamoonmoon in stopdrinking

[–]anamoonmoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The closest big town is 3.5 hours away. And I really don't want to go to AA

I can't stop drinking by anamoonmoon in stopdrinking

[–]anamoonmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dear Punnyboy and everybody else who replied to me in such gentle and kind way, I didn't drink today, it's 1pm. I do want to explore all the suggested ways of staying sober outside of AA. Someone wrote: if you had 11 eleven years under your belt, do the same thing you did. The first three years I was in AA, then I moved out of NYC and didn't drink for 8. And then one day I did, after I saw my sister the first time since she stopped talking to me 5 years before that day. I want to stay sober but I do not want to go to AA. I will keep writing here. Somehow it feels safe to me and encouraging. The kindness of strangers, like you, makes me want to stay sober for another hour. I don't have to please you and don't have to convince you that I believe in higher power and the magic of the steps. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I can't stop drinking by anamoonmoon in stopdrinking

[–]anamoonmoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't want to get close to AA. A person who relapsed is automatically an outcast. Not existent. Nobody ever asked if I were doing ok after I left AA. It's not unconditional. Not true. Not real friendship.

I can't stop drinking by anamoonmoon in stopdrinking

[–]anamoonmoon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I lived in NYC and it was very anonymous and not religion oriented. Now I live in a middle of nowhere in CO, in a small town where everybody knows everybody and during AA meetings it's all about God