Bert I am glad you are letting your higher power guide you, this is probably one of the single most important things you can do. Of course AA is going to be important as will this site.
Thank you for your clarification about your understanding of chronic and I will just comment that you may be more physically strong than most alcoholics which is why you don't suffer from these effects. Physically therefore you may have damage,. Have you been medically checked? this may help you with a restoration regime too which will help improve your recovery.
I still recommend Al anon for your spouse if you can persuade her to go, as this will help her understand your position. To restore your M is obviously of priority to you at the moment and for this you are in the correct place. W has clearly had sufficient love to stay with you for a long time. Ironically it may take her a while to acknowledge the new sober Bert, as a sober Bert will be a new person to her which may take a while to adapt to.
Can I recommend that you request your thread to be moved to the newcomers forum as you will get more traffic and help there. Try the notify button and your thread can be moved for you. In addition by All means drop by a few threads even if just to say a few kind words. Choose those with some pages to their threads as they are likely to be regular posters. Like minded posters will be of great assistance to you.
Also there is a strap line at the bottom of each post which will aid other posters in their knowledge of you. Name, ages, etc, you can access this through "my stuff", this will assist in helping you. Be brave and include the AA join date and sober time
How many days sober are you? What made you realise 20 years was enough? Encouraging you Vanilla
Last edited by Vanilla; 12/18/1408:47 AM.
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose. V 64, WAW
