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“Plotting the course away from booze is every bit as hard as leaving an abusive lover – take it from me. In some ways I would even argue it can be harder.... But that safety is not real. The love of your life is a snake in your bed. He offers you escape from all the big meanies and scaries, while he quietly tightens the noose around your neck and the bindings on your wrists and ankles.

When others try to save you from him, he whispers in your ear “They don’t know you like I do, love you like I do. I am all you need.”
― Lore- Boozemusings

tags: alcohol, alcohol-addiction, alcoholism, sober-living, sobriety, stop-drinking

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“I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?”
― Augusten Burroughs

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“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”
― Caroline Knapp, Drinking: A Love Story

tags: alcoholism, drinking, sobriety

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“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn’t understand why the happiness never came, couldn’t see the flaw in my thinking, couldn’t see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again. And all my efforts were doomed, because already drinking hadn’t made me feel good in years.”
― Heather King, Parched: A Memoir

tags: sobriety

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