“I don’t know about you, but I’m admitting now that I have a problem”

If you like rock/metal.... I Have a Problem x Beartooth

Honestly my best piece of advice is to keep reading the posts in this subreddit, but also read the posts in r/AlAnon.

I find that reading the posts of struggling friends and family members motivates me to live a life of sobriety for my own friends and family. A lot of those posts are just as easy to relate to for me. I’ve found that I need to appreciate the people who stuck around when i was in my lowest place, and also come to a proper understanding about all of the people i lost because of my drinking. Some of the most heart wrenching stories come from people who have been struggling with spouses, and honestly being 20M and never having a proper family structure, these stories are the scariest, most sobering realities i can present myself with.

I want a family one day, and reading about the perils of alcohol over and over again reinforce the idea in my head that 1) both of my parents drank 2) my family life was fucked and 3) i’m not better than my parents. I can’t expect to have this perfect life i’ve been dreaming of and simultaneously be drinking myself down the same path they did.

Anyways!

35 Days (: 5 weeks! (: This is the way.