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I have had a slip in my behavior again. I guess I am human and I am learning. The abf started drinking Friday afternoon after doing errands. I did not get his beer. He went and got it himself. I should have said you can not drink here. I did not. I instead drank with him and he drank non stop till 4 am this morning (Sunday). Yesterday he made two runs to the liquor store himself. Now there is 15 empty beers sitting in the living room he drank. I am not cleaning it up. He made the mess, he can clean it up. I had two horrible nights of non sleeping. I was kept up all night and day by his drinking. I could have left and went somewhere else but I was so tired I could not move. I just needed sleep. In between my screaming at him to let me sleep, do not bother me and a sleeping pill, I slept but it was broken up constantly till this morning when he finally passed out at 4 am. It was awful. I screamed and yelled at him and it did no good. I am so angry. I am allowing myself to live in this insanity. What is wrong with me. I keep saying to myself, wait till spring, and move out. It will be warm out and I can pack up and leave. I do not deserve this craziness. I was thankful it was the weekend, had it been during the week and I had to work, I would be even more mad. My heart is saying I need to move out and that is getting stronger. He is now sleeping and I expect that he will sleep all day and night now and he will be headed to work tomorrow back to camp. I will be surprised if he can maintain sobriety while at work. Not my issue though. I am so fed up with this situation and my lack of ability to take action to get out. I must be just as sick as he is. I feel in my heart I am getting fed up and need to move out yet I am not doing anything. I need a back bone so bad. I am shocked at the amount of alcohol he can drink yet know what he is going on, despite stumbling around. If I had drank the amount he had, I would be in black out mode big time, yet for him he can talk and know what is going on. Its unreal. Real alcoholism. This morning, after a sleep I had, I feel much better but did flip out on him about his drinking and how its effecting me and he needs to get help. I know I am talking to the wall. What needs to happen for him to get it that his drinking is a problem. I am sure he knows but will do nothing to help himself. I am so fed up. I am angry and want out. I need to get out of this house and away from his alcoholism. I need to get my own apartment and start new. He can drink himself to death I do not care. I need to get a back bone and stop this madness. I need to move out! I ask higher power to help me!
Oh Joker, I am so sorry that the "madness" continues for you. Time to get back to the Al-Anon basics and detach, work on your asset list and take a deep breath. Focus on now and not the past and ask your HP for serenity and guidance. {{HUGS}}
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"Forgiveness doesn't excuse bad behavior, but it
does prevent bad behavior from destroying your heart". ~ unknown
Sounds like many memorable nights living with my A, Joker. I think we had one like that at least once a week. Lack of sleep, anger, alcohol, none of these things make for serenity or good decision making huh?
Don't beat yourself up, just keep working your program. You got this.
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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see? (Lewis Caroll)
Yesterday is already in the past - you only have today. Choose you, choose recovery. Meetings, sponsor, steps - that's where the change happens Joker.
Be gentle with you today and take care of you! (((Hugs)))
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Practice the PAUSE...Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you are about to react harshly and you will avoid doing and saying things you will later regret. ~~~~ Lori Deschene