Posting here is a big deal, and likely your first step to real change. Keep checking in. I have found what works best for me is saying that I've retired from drinking. It truly was a second job (sometimes first..) and now I'm retired. Been there, done that.
Your wife is on her own journey coping with this and will likely not recognize your progress as quickly as you'd like. Give her grace. Give yourself grace. We're all rooting for you!
Canes series gonna be bruuutal.
Crabs in a bucket.
In the past, happiness across the adult lifespan took on a “U-shaped” curve. Young adults were among the most content with their lives, happiness dipped in middle age and then rose again among older adults. In recent years, this decades-old curve has shifted into a straight, upward line. Older adults remain happy, and middle age remains middling, but young adults are now less happy than either group.
Yeah, we know why. Decades of reduced social investment at the behest of a incredibly large and selfish cohort that is remaining in power far longer than any generation before them.
Thanks for posting. I’m now at 108 days. I can confirm that drinking “responsibly” was far more work than not drinking at all. I started journaling my random thoughts about drinking (which still happen) and still refer back to entries I made in the first few weeks. They remind me where I was and why I don’t want to go back to square one. IWNDWYTT!
Appreciate you evangelizing for dry herb vaping. It’s mind blowing to me that more people haven’t made the switch. I haven’t convinced a single of my local friends after doing it myself for 10 years and sharing it with them. Probably should just give them my old vapes.
Haha holy shit, this made me realize I do that all day everyday. It really is a reflex from the 90s and serves zero purpose.
So much alcoholism. And 2008 happening in their prime earning years caused several gen X’ers I know to never recover financially.
Thanks! I’m looking to do this and appreciate your approach in showing and explaining details that often get glossed over.
Kansas tried something similar and it was such a disaster the Republicans had to repeal it themselves.
Minimal. Much quieter than a Model 3.