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/Wax_Lyrical_ 1d ago

5 days to get to 1 year ☺️ feels good!

Iwndwyt

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u/4U4EA 1d ago

Me too! My First ‘dry-January’ challenge ever taken & made it a full year! 👍Glad to be done with drinking and am truly grateful for the folks on this Sub!

IWNDWYT

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u/Wax_Lyrical_ 1d ago

Woohoo congrats! And yep I agree 👍🏼

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u/4U4EA 19h ago

Happy Anniversary to us, Wax! 🎂 We made it! 🙌😁