Promoted to the front page from the user blogs. I want to thank my friend Gatinha for all her contributions. You can find all her previous postings here at her blog.
I haven’t posted in a while. However I, like Screedler and others on this site, am extremely grateful to TDA. His dedication to helping others stay clean and sober, his tireless dedication to bringing great information about addiction, each and every day, is amazing.
When I found The Discovering Alcoholic, I wrote my story and then finally realized that I could no longer live the way I had been living. Now I see that it wasn’t living at all, it was surviving. Happiness was something that I hadn’t experienced in years. I’m not sure that I knew what it was at all. I was unhappy not drinking and I was unhappy drinking.
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I have almost a year and a half of sobriety. That would have been impossible if I hadn’t gotten here. I need to keep coming back and continue reading the stories of others to remind me of what I’m not missing. I haven’t had the desire to drink but it would be so easy to forget.
I don’t want to forget the past, even though I don’t dwell on it all the time. Life has been serene and for me that is happiness. In fact, I am in love with my new life.
Gatinha
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and I can’t tell you how much it means to me that the site was a part of your recovery. Congrats on the 1-1/2, but more than anything enjoy the happiness!
it had been tagged under “sobriety” in the creative commons and I thought it fit the bill rather well for your post.
Thanks, TDA, for everything! Sobriety does feel wonderful. Waking up without a hangover, and experiencing the day is something I missed for many years.