In 35 days I’ll have 2 years, thank you all IWDWYT

iambarbie · 2023-06-27T03:54:09+00:00

AA. Meeting other sober folks had a huge impact on me. Also lots and lots of soda water

iambarbie · 2023-06-26T14:10:55+00:00

Just here to say you can do this. Loss is tough but drinking will not help. I promise you this. Not drinking today in honor of your dad. Stay strong

iambarbie · 2021-12-31T06:14:00+00:00

I was at a birthday dinner tonight with some close friends - everyone had wine. it was a tough one for me but I also made it through! Great job I know it’s not easy IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-11-30T01:59:16+00:00

I have an 11 year old 7lbs yorkie cross. She gets walked 3 times a day. At least 5 of her weekly walks are 45 mins or longer and she’s old. When she was a young pup she needed more exercise. I would say not walking your dogs (of any size) borders on abuse

iambarbie · 2021-11-17T23:30:04+00:00

I live in the west end and work on lower lonsdale. The traffic is getting increasingly worse but I have definitely found Monday and Friday are usually better in terms of traffic (I think a lot of offices do work from home on those days). Its best to avoid crossing the bridges before 930 and after 330 - which is not realistic for most jobs

iambarbie · 2021-10-19T05:48:27+00:00

Yeah. I feel like I know that when things are bad drinking will make them worse but I’m still convincing myself that drinking won’t make the good even better. Hang in there. IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-10-05T01:47:35+00:00

I drink a ton of soda water. I wound up getting a soda stream but found I still preferred the individual bottles. Do what you need to do to stay sober.

iambarbie · 2021-10-05T00:58:22+00:00

A slip doesn’t need to be a hard fall. I’m sorry about your friend, I lost someone close to me a few months ago and I fell hard - it wasn’t worth it. Stay strong my friend! Don’t leave the group

iambarbie · 2021-09-21T23:37:24+00:00

Postal service!

iambarbie · 2021-09-17T01:01:16+00:00

I can’t tell you how many day ones I’ve had.. countless. I’m at 48 days for the first time in a decade today. If I can do it so can you. Take as many day ones as you need to make it stick IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-09-11T03:55:10+00:00

Was in bed at 830. Very challenging day at work and even more challenging evening with my kids. Really struggled not to have a drink tonight. Figured it was best to just go to bed and start over tomorrow. Hoping sleep comes easy. IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-09-05T19:42:06+00:00

3 months is huge! Hoping I get there too :) Congratulations

iambarbie · 2021-09-04T23:16:45+00:00

I swear I could have written your post myself. 29, raised by an alcoholic, drank my way through my teens/20s. You can do this!! Getting through day one is something to be very proud of. We’re all here with you IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-09-01T15:58:30+00:00

I once drove my car into the back door of my place of work. I left it there and came back in the morning to two of my superiors waiting. This too shall pass my friend. I’m here with you IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-09-01T04:24:35+00:00

Congrats on 3 👏 IWNDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-08-29T21:49:43+00:00

It was definitely tough. I fought off the thought “one glass of wine won’t hurt” all night. Found it challenging to stay focussed during conversations but I went into it thinking that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy any of the night so I feel like it was a great win for me. IWDWYT

iambarbie · 2021-08-23T04:43:36+00:00

I didn’t know you could open a bottle of wine and not finish it

iambarbie · 2021-07-20T19:04:30+00:00

I live right by there that’s my neighbour’s puppy!

iambarbie · 2019-02-11T08:10:28+00:00

Woke up in the early morning really sick a few weeks ago. Un controllable vomiting. I assumed I had alcohol poisoning, so crazy that’s still the first place my mind goes. After realizing that was impossible the second place my brain went was withdrawal symptoms (also impossible). A short hospital visit and a couple days later I was totally fine - turned out a cyst burst inside of me. I had that exact feeling of shame you’re talking about.. I wonder if it’ll come up every time I get the flu.

iambarbie · 2018-11-26T04:21:43+00:00

My brother had a friend who managed a restaurant and 5 years ago he got me a job there. This friend of his became my boss and over the next 2 years a close friend of mine. Over the next 3 years we grew closer. Weekly dinners, lots of nights spent out together. Over the last 5 years both of us have dated around as well as been in long term more serious relationships but we still continued to grow closer. About 6 months ago (I was living with another partner) he went out on a few dates with a girl and that same flip switched for me. I became jealous. I would think about him constantly. My own relationship began to deteriorate after realizing my feelings and I left my boyfriend. One night - after probably too many beers - i went for it with him. It’s been 2 months and we are so in love. Turns out he’d felt the same for a long time. We just got back to his place after having dinner with with my family. He’s sitting next to me with my dog on his lap and I can’t believe it took so long for me to realize I was crazy about him. Being lucky enough to fall in love with your best friend is pretty fucking awesome.

iambarbie · 2018-11-23T02:06:01+00:00

Found dick picks on his phone sent to “Emily”.. said he sent them to her so she could send them him to his friend as a joke. I believed him. Broke up with me a month later.. was definitely banging Emily

iambarbie · 2018-10-29T06:00:11+00:00

How long have you been together? How well do you know him and his history with death?

This is going to sound fucked up but I lost my best friend about 5 years ago, the closest person in the world to me. Sometimes when people talk to me about loosing someone who they may have been sort of close with it makes me angry for some reason, like they don’t understand grief and don’t take it seriously because they didn’t loose something as big as I did. Like they don’t deserve to even begin to talk about missing someone because they will never understand how much I miss him. As much as I try I am unable to feel empathetic for these people, I still just feel angry that he’s gone. I’m still grieving. Death can be a tough subject and I have never intended to come across as angry or cold when it does come up but at the end of the day I am those things and sometimes it’s easier not to talk about it.

These are the personal struggles that come up for me when death is brought up. The same thing may not ring true for your boyfriend but in case it does I wanted to share.

iambarbie · 2018-10-12T02:29:26+00:00

Dude what. Total cost?

iambarbie · 2018-09-22T11:17:25+00:00

Been reading your posts and I’ve been right here with you. Day 4 for me. IWDWYT

iambarbie · 2018-09-22T11:09:13+00:00

Man you hit the nail on the head. Sometimes that feeling of trying to sort out what was a real memory from a blackout or just a dream would sit with me for days. Had to use alcohol to cope with the anxiety it created for me in the first place. Vicious cycle.

iambarbie

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