I can't freakin BELIEVE you still think you don't need something along the lines of AA. When you don't drink, you're just a dry drunk, Frank! A DRY DRUNK.
And I can't freakin BELIEVE you would give your wife this kind of ammunition! WTH is wrong with you!? You have created yourself the makings of a self-fulfilling prophecy so you can stay in your comfortable place of self-pity that you've been in all your life.
In all your posts you never mentioned drinking. GET REAL AND KEEP IT REAL, MAN. No one here or anywhere else can ever help you if all you do is put up a front.
IT'S RIDICULOUS!
You don't need a "friend". You need a &%^*$#@ CLUE.
I hope your daughter's letter DID wake you up. You shouldn't have ever been running your mouth to your kids about OM in the first damn place. It's POSTURING.
You vent here. You are not a newbie.
So now you want to come here and get kudos for sucking up to your wife and making dinner plans for your daughter's birthday? Come here and tell us how you've seen the error of your ways?
<INSERT BS FLAG HERE>
I'll let the other posters give you that.
You don't need nor am I asking you to do so but do you know what would impress me?
Get your butt to AA and weekly counseling sessions.
Then join a bowling league or something for christ's sake! New people don't need to "understand" what you're going through - YOU need to cut it the **** loose and get a life.
