r/stopdrinking • u/stupre1972 468 days • 1d ago
Sobriety - a cautionary tale
460 odd days ago, I stopped drinking.
460 odd days ago, my wife lost her drinking partner.
Directly or indirectly, so did her parents, my sister, brother in law and a number of friends.
Today, we have had a get together of 10 of us and what would have been a very boozy get together (historically double figure bottles of wine plus various other) has been a very gentle affair where the grand total is 2 bottles of wine and a half dozen bottles of beer.
All of that because I stopped and others followed....
So a word of caution - your (and my) sobriety can have positive effects way beyond your own little world.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the sub, I raise a glass (of hot chocolate in my case) and salute you all - Be you on day 1 or day 1000 - and say once more IWNDWYT
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u/xCeeTee- 2304 days 1d ago
I wish it worked for my brother. He gets depressed and has a beer, weeks later he's drinking on every day off. However, he has just broken up with his girlfriend who was a heavy drinker. And she was abusive when drinking, physically and verbally. He's committed to put down the bottle after the new year but I fear it's just a matter of time again.
He just self destructs when he's drunk. But hey, at least he's stopped doing drugs so that's something.