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/Craig_of_the_jungle 74 days 1d ago
My dad LOVES cocktails with me and my sister. He's not a problem drinker but he loves to tie one on when we're around and I instigate the shit out of it and I always feel bad seeing my dad hungover because I feel like I caused it (I know, he's a grown man and can make his own choices but still). I don't think I saw the man have more than 4 drinks in a night, at most, while I was home. My sister and brother in law had maybe 3 glasses of wine. 100% chance we would've been taking shots and drunk by Christmas dinner had I been boozing. I felt really happy about that. Day at a time baby. I don't feel like drinking today, maybe I won't feel like drinking tomorrow, but today, IWNDWYT