Well, I'm good at messing this up, but I'm back to try again. I just got out of jail yesterday. I spent 2 months in there after completing 4 out of 6 months of home detention that I was sentenced to for my third DUI. In between my 2nd and 3rd DUI was 7 years and 5 of those years I didn't drink. The last 2 years have been rough on me and I slowly drifted back into a cycle of drinking heavily. It wasn't every day it wasn't every week, but when I did drink it was enough to make up for the time in between. While I was in jail I read This Naked Mind. It really helped me and reminded me of the ways I made it 5 years sober before. I've reset my badge to the last day I drank, the day before I violated my home detention and was put in jail as a result. I'm hoping I can go much, MUCH longer this streak. I have probation that I'm at risk of violating for the next year. My girlfriend stayed with me the whole 2 months I was in, but the 2 months were not without consequences to my relationship with her, my kids, and my career.

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Thank you for this community. I will not drink with you today.