Amazingly, when I look in the cupboard, there is a store of food! Supplies!! More than just enough to get through the next few days. There is several tins of beans, a few jars of mayonaise, lots of tea bags, cartons of soya milk. I look in that cupboard and I am proud of myself!!
Hi Lacey
I am one of those who havent been around for awhile but its good to be here now and youre last two posts have brought back so many memories of what it was like for me and my family in my practising alcoholism and how grateful I am today that its nothing like it used to be I also know who to thank for that.
Yes its a good feeling to have a few coins to gin gel in my pocket and to have a cupboard full of food.
Although I worked from a young age in good paying employment all my money went on my next drink and when I married and thought things would be different they werent I still tried to live the life of a single man and that was to be a formula for disaster.
I remember the times and I am sure my wife and children do also when I had spent all our money on alcohol and my wife would have to borrow money from her father to put food on the table so she and my children could eat.
For me my alcoholism has always been a family disease and in one-way or another has affected all of us. We went through so much in my alcoholism and we have been through so much in recovery but this is the best its ever been.
It didnt happen over night though.
Thankyou for youre post and God Bless
Lionel
I am one of those who havent been around for awhile but its good to be here now and youre last two posts have brought back so many memories of what it was like for me and my family in my practising alcoholism and how grateful I am today that its nothing like it used to be I also know who to thank for that.
Yes its a good feeling to have a few coins to gin gel in my pocket and to have a cupboard full of food.
Although I worked from a young age in good paying employment all my money went on my next drink and when I married and thought things would be different they werent I still tried to live the life of a single man and that was to be a formula for disaster.
I remember the times and I am sure my wife and children do also when I had spent all our money on alcohol and my wife would have to borrow money from her father to put food on the table so she and my children could eat.
For me my alcoholism has always been a family disease and in one-way or another has affected all of us. We went through so much in my alcoholism and we have been through so much in recovery but this is the best its ever been.
It didnt happen over night though.
Thankyou for youre post and God Bless
Lionel
Hi Lacey...
Today I actually did my taxes, on time, and smiled as I mailed them off...I still owe money but it felt so good to follow through, not have lost my W-2's, figure out, fill out the form, add a stamp & mail them....
Something so simple today used to utterly baffle me....Thank god for sobriety and learning to do the next right thing....
xoxoxo
Stacey
Today I actually did my taxes, on time, and smiled as I mailed them off...I still owe money but it felt so good to follow through, not have lost my W-2's, figure out, fill out the form, add a stamp & mail them....
Something so simple today used to utterly baffle me....Thank god for sobriety and learning to do the next right thing....
xoxoxo
Stacey
