Craving a Beer Lately

[rbh]

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If you get the monkey off your back, you don't invite him back for a little ride.

It is both a mental and physical ailment. (or most generally, you do not like what you see in the mirror the next morning)

 

[halfmoa]

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Don't do it, it's not worth it. I admire you willpower and struggle to hold on to mine on a daily basis.

 

[jimbo_jwc]

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Everything in moderation.Want bigger boat but like what I have . Applies to all things in life . Learn this key and should be clear sailing . Heck you think the Jones don't have this prob.?

 

[JRJ]

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After I gave up cigarettes and money, the rest was easy.......Hang in there SS.

 

[sbbamafan]

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I wont say I have quit drinking. I probably have a drink (usually beer) more often (once of twice a week) but never more than two. I used to drink once every 4 to 6 weeks but I would usually drink 4 or 5. FWIW - I NEVER drink on the boat.

 

[roscoe]

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I understand a lot about alcoholics... and from what I've read, SS isn't one of them. A true alcoholic needs to hit a bottom, needs help, enters a program, lives in a halfway house, etc, etc... I know this because I helped bury my cousin that was 8 years older than me just 2 years ago. He died of renal failure after years of abuse. He went thru every program (and prison) we could find for him, but he could not stop. True alcoholics get up in the morning and start boozing so they can function... Recovery happens once you have the disease. I doubt SS falls into this catagory.

IMO, if SS really wants a beer or two, he just needs to set some limits and stick with them.

Simply not true.
This is one of the rationalizations, I mean lies, that alcoholics tell themselves, to convince themselves they don't have a problem.

I'm out of here.

 

[WIMUSKY]

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^^^^^^^^ Right on, Roscoe!

 

[Fishing Dude too]

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I have not drank in like 8 years, before that would have a drink once and a while. I started drinking 1 drink once in a great while again but have to make an effort to do that. If there is the remotest of chance I will have to drive or take the boat out stay with sodapop. 3 years ago drank like a fish, butnever had a problem with it. Now I know if I want one I can have one and that's all I need to know.

 

[DonHof]

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Hang in there it's been 20 years for me. The longer you go the easier it is.

 

[bassman284]

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Simply not true.
This is one of the rationalizations, I mean lies, that alcoholics tell themselves, to convince themselves they don't have a problem.

I'm out of here.

Exactly right, roscoe. A good friend of mine who'd been through AA and was over 4 years clean at the time (I didn't know him when he was drinking) once told me, "I knew I wasn't an alcoholic because I never took a drink before 5 pm. Of course, every day at 5 pm, I headed to the bar and closed it." One night his wife met him at his front door, handed him a pillow and told him to go back to the bar to sleep since that's where he lived now.

 

[CheapboatKev]

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I haven't really drank in a while, a beer here and there...I have a 12 pack of Coronas in the beer fridge, been there since 4th of July.
SS...Do what makes you comfortable, if you think it's too easy to start up and get over your head, simply dont.
Only you know you.

I am headed to Germany for Octoberfest next week and I think one beer will probably be my limit..Thank the Lord I am not paying for any of the trip! Long way for a beer.

 

[rbh]

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Your going to "OCTOBER FEST" Munich (Maybe the Hofbrau house) ????


1 BEER!!!!


LOL HAHA or (JAJAJAJA)

Good luck
Good time to get rid of wife and set into oktoberfest carnel-----, you get the point!

 

[Fishing Dude too]

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I haven't really drank in a while, a beer here and there...I have a 12 pack of Coronas in the beer fridge, been there since 4th of July.
SS...Do what makes you comfortable, if you think it's too easy to start up and get over your head, simply dont.
Only you know you.

I am headed to Germany for Octoberfest next week and I think one beer will probably be my limit..Thank the Lord I am not paying for any of the trip! Long way for a beer.

I think thier beers are 1 L

 

[paultjohnson]

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I am headed to Germany for Octoberfest next week and I think one beer will probably be my limit..Thank the Lord I am not paying for any of the trip! Long way for a beer.

Yeah, but the glass they serve that one beer in is the size of a small swimming pool:facepalm:

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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When I was in my 20's, I drank enough for 2 people about every night for a couple of years. I knew I was getting to dependant on the alcohol. I quit my job working in bars and that was the first step in making my habit come to a halt. I got married and started a family which then limited my drinking tremedously. With raising my family, drinking was not a priority and never got too intoxicated to know what was going on. The first time I actually got to falling down drunk was after my 3rd divorce was final. That was a 12 year span of keeping control. That was in 1995. Since then I have been that was 2 times. Once on 7 July 97 and during a fish fry in 2009.

I can't say I have a drinking problem as I do put a limit on how much and often when I did drink.
Right now I like the idea of saying I have a time period in which I haven't taken a drink. I'm sure if I did, it would not control me.

Does drinking hard cider considered drinking

 

[Rocky_Road]

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This thread has degenerated into a "I don't drink...I used to drink...I have never drank" self help forum!

The original poster (who has not returned, as far as I can see) only said that he missed a cold one every once in awhile...and that is hardly a confession of being an alcoholic. I submit that he is an adult, and as such, can decide for himself if he can handle a beer when the occasion arises...and doesn't need us to monitor his behavior.

Let's not become self righteous, nay saying, judgmental do-gooders!

Happy boating!

 

[SS MAYFLOAT]

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This thread has degenerated into a "I don't drink...I used to drink...I have never drank" self help forum!

The original poster (who has not returned, as far as I can see) only said that he missed a cold one every once in awhile...and that is hardly a confession of being an alcoholic. I submit that he is an adult, and as such, can decide for himself if he can handle a beer when the occasion arises...and doesn't need us to monitor his behavior.

Let's not become self righteous, nay saying, judgmental do-gooders!

Happy boating!

Hmmmm, I did repost just above this post. Just been busy with the 9/11 events, cleaning fish, honey todo list, and football. But that is ok. I like the support and I will use the pros and cons on how I conduct myself. Any support is better than none. It is how it is taken......Thanks..........SS

 

[Rocky_Road]

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Hmmmm, I did repost just above this post. Just been busy with the 9/11 events, cleaning fish, honey todo list, and football. But that is ok. I like the support and I will use the pros and cons on how I conduct myself. Any support is better than none. It is how it is taken......Thanks..........SS

I'm sorry to have missed your follow up post...and I stand by my post that you are an adult, and as such you are in charge of your own destiny.

I will not judge you, or tell you what you need to do.

Happy boating!

 

[ngt]

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Your going to "OCTOBER FEST" Munich (Maybe the Hofbrau house) ????


1 BEER!!!!

Been there Good times!

1 beer might be enough, but I may need a couple of those giant pretzels

 

[JRJ]

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I can't say I have a drinking problem as I do put a limit on how much and often when I did drink.
Right now I like the idea of saying I have a time period in which I haven't taken a drink. I'm sure if I did, it would not control me.

Does drinking hard cider considered drinking

Hard cider considered drinking? I don't know, I never really considered drinking it