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re: Why do sober people feel the need to broadcast it so much?
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:20 am to iPleadDaFif
Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:20 am to iPleadDaFif
quote:I'm glad you have it figured out. Because I mean, how could you be so fricking smart about it vs the hundreds of MILLIONS of people who have had such a difficult time quitting?
bullshite. You just stop drinking it.
It REALLY is that easy.
Same with cigarettes and chewing tobacco. You just put it down.
Nothing to be proud about.
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 7:59 am to iPleadDaFif
quote:
bullshite. You just stop drinking it.
It REALLY is that easy.
Same with cigarettes and chewing tobacco. You just put it down.
Nothing to be proud about.
All the recovering drunks in here won't like it, but you're right. If you're a drunk it's because you don't have the discipline and will power to just put the shite down.
If you're working on it, good for you. That's admirable. But there is a whole cottage industry of excuse makers that try to normalize the shitty decision making.
But it's just a matter of disciplining your own mind. If you can't put down the bottle, you've probably got a bunch of other problems in life too. The alcohol didn't do it to you. You did it to yourself by being a weak minded pussy. Millions of people drink alcohol and aren't alcoholics. Just like with gambling. Just like all vices.
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 8:02 am
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:15 am to SECSolomonGrundy
quote:this. these people will destroy relationships, childhoods, families, events, etc then pat themselves on the back for starting “recovery”
you're a drunk it's because you don't have the discipline and will power to just put the shite down.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:19 am to TackySweater
if you had cancer wouldnt you tell ppl?
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:51 am to TackySweater
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Whether you’ve always been sober or a person that formerly did drugs/drank alcohol and now have quit.
I see it mostly in the latter group.
I thought their whole thing was “just let me do my thing and don’t try to pressure me into it. It’s not a big deal that I’m sober.”
But yet they have to let everyone know about it.
Reformed drunks are also prone to going in the preaching bidness...I know 2 who were as bad as I ever knew, and I have known a bunch, who got sober and took to the pulpit. One of them is damned good dude. The other was my step great grandfather who was also some sort of KKK Lizard (drunk or sober) and, on the day after my 13th birthday called me over to his house for a white trash bar mitzvah where he presented me with one of his old klan uniforms so I could "become a man". He did not stay sober but about 10 years, eventually dying in a car wreck in his late 70s, while drunk, eluding the police in Anniston Alabama after shooting my Great Grandmother with a 22 pistol in the chest. She survived, in fact walked into his funeral just a few days later, and lived another 20 years. That old woman was tough and never had anything but a kind word for that man LOL...if you had not known him and his history you'd have thought he was a saint. Most of the family felt that way...they'd say "he had his ways but he was a man of god"...his ways included being a reprobate racists who was proudly and vocally a white supremacist with the card to prove it. a drunk, had gone awol duing ww2, was a convicted felon...60+ years if being a bona fide a-hole dismissed for 10 years for being a reformed drunk preacher...if that ain't the south I will kiss your arse...
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:53 am to TackySweater
People are celebrated for quitting alcohol but then teased if they never started in the first place.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 8:56 am to TackySweater
I gave up celibacy after 14 years of abstinence about 43 years ago and I have not shut up about it or not thought about staying on the wagon daily since...it was very easy to give up. Was not so easy to obtain the means of avoidance but I have managed and with the lords help will do so for some time yet...
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:07 am to texag7
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:14 am to TackySweater
quote:
But yet they have to let everyone know about it.
Probably because people like you keep pushing them to drink at social events.
1. Don't ask people if they will have kids, have more kids...never know what they are going through.
2. Don't pressure people to drink.
I drink but don't care one bit if someone else doesn't.
This post was edited on 5/11/23 at 9:15 am
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:17 am to TackySweater
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:17 am to TackySweater
Dunno.
My next door neighbor hit rock bottom but now he's been sober for about 3-4 years.
He's now married to a beautiful woman and a great neighbor.
I'd never drink in front of him outta respect.
My next door neighbor hit rock bottom but now he's been sober for about 3-4 years.
He's now married to a beautiful woman and a great neighbor.
I'd never drink in front of him outta respect.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:19 am to Areddishfish
quote:
People are celebrated for quitting alcohol but then teased if they never started in the first place.
Yep… Reason #54,752 why people in general are hypocritical morons .
It’s kinda like when guys of a certain age are trying to date, and women see a “red flag”[tm] if the man hasn’t ever been married, but it seems more ‘acceptable’ if the man is Divorced…. I didnt get married til i was older, so i saw some of that when i was dating in my late 30s.. it’s like, shouldn’t the guy get some credit for *avoiding* the bad starter marriage and eventual divorce ? Shouldn’t the sober person get some credit for *avoiding* the sloppy drunk nights, the hangovers and eventual trip to rehab ??
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:21 am to pwejr88
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It stops after a while. I’m now just a guy who doesn’t drink. If they need to be proud of themselves the first year or two, so be it. Whatever keeps them sober.
I would take an inner look and see why it bothers you so bad…
This.
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Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:30 am to TackySweater
They are struggling and it helps them affirm their choices. It usually means they are still actively fighting the addiction and could be close to falling off the wagon.
It is a tough decisions for these folks and as time goes on it becomes easier but it never goes away fully.
It is a tough decisions for these folks and as time goes on it becomes easier but it never goes away fully.
Posted on 5/11/23 at 9:33 am to iPleadDaFif
quote:
bullshite. You just stop drinking it. It REALLY is that easy. Same with cigarettes and chewing tobacco. You just put it down. Nothing to be proud about.
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Posted on 5/12/23 at 12:57 am to CatfishJohn
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I would take an inner look and see why it bothers you so bad…
I did that.
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/thread
I understand that you thought you had a good “gotcha”
But you didn’t lol
This post was edited on 5/12/23 at 12:57 am
Posted on 5/12/23 at 5:27 am to TackySweater
I have mixed feelings about this.. I have been a very very light, very very occasional drinker throughout my 30s and 40s.. Most years, i can count on one hand the number of drinks ive had in a year.. and for about the last two or three years, i havent had a drink at all.. Some people think im disciplined , but my stance is that it isnt discipline *if it’s what you like*.. i like not drinking or doing any types of mind altering substances, i like being clear headed and not waking up in the morning feeling like a ton of bricks feel on me.. So to me it’s easy, becuase it’s what i like .. 
Im not sure how any of that applies to the discussion , except to say that i dont think that discipline is really part of the equation .
Im not sure how any of that applies to the discussion , except to say that i dont think that discipline is really part of the equation .
Posted on 5/12/23 at 5:31 am to TackySweater
My mom will be 63 this year. She quit drinking in her early 20's and never fails to say "Well, you know I don't drink" in the most arrogant and condescending way possible, and as if we didn't know. She makes upholding the 4th commandment very difficult. 
Posted on 5/12/23 at 6:26 am to SECSolomonGrundy
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But it's just a matter of disciplining your own mind. If you can't put down the bottle, you've probably got a bunch of other problems in life too. The alcohol didn't do it to you. You did it to yourself by being a weak minded pussy
It actually was very easy for me to quit. I had to realize I had a problem. After attending a handful of AA meetings, I realized I could manage on my own. I wasn't craving alcohol but instead was just used to always drinking. I got to a point where I couldn't control how much I drank once I started, so never start again. The never starting again was easy for me.
I attended those meetings in a very well to do area. You'd be surprised how many extremely smart, successful, got-it-together people sit in those rooms. And all because at one point alcohol brought them to their knees. It hits addicts differently. Those people go to meeting almost daily out of the fear of giving into the addiction again.
Posted on 5/12/23 at 7:20 am to dukke v
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Hey dude. You are an idiot
Damn, some guy got called an idiot by Dukke
Duke, you got a pick for Boston 76ers game 7?
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