Happy Saturday Morning All !!!

[houghchrst]

Phew, squeezed that in just in time considering it is almost noon. The sun is shining and yet today it is supposed to be bitterly cold. Hey the sun is shining and I don't have to go out if I don't want to so I don't care. I am sorry for those of you who do have to go out in the cold today and are offended :D by my enthusiasm.

I actually got to sleep in this morning until our 6 year old knocked on the door and said he had diarrhea :eek: I don't care, the sun is shining.

I would like to come to this board often but I see from it's history that there aren't may addicts who come. Is it because the board was down so long or are there less addicts out there. It would be nice if the latter were true. I do not attend any meetings even though my rehab therapists did not predict well for me if we did not maintain some kind of outside help. Well now I just find that since I got clean and sober I lost all but one *friend* and boy am I lonely. I would also like to be some kind of support for others out there.

Babble, babble...........yea I am lonely.

Well hope everyone has a great day and see you around the boards!

Christina

[mcdan]

No there hasent been much activity since the Crash. I come by once in awhile to see if has picked up any..Hope everyone is pain free and addiction free...;)

[teddiebears]

I do not attend any meetings even though my rehab therapists did not predict well for me if we did not maintain some kind of outside help. Well now I just find that since I got clean and sober I lost all but one *friend* and boy am I lonely. I would also like to be some kind of support for others out there.

Babble, babble...........yea I am lonely.


It's none of my business, but why don't you attend any kind of meeting? :confused:

I think I understand a little about 'losing' friends and how lonely it can feel -- I'm experiencing something like that myself. I went through it back when I quit drinking (almost 9 years ago). But I've experienced it again recently.

Over the past two years I've had some major changes in my living circumstances, like getting divorced and returning to living on only disability income, which forced me to move into an apartment about 10 miles further from friends. You'd think I had dropped off the face of the earth!!! LOL :rolleyes:

I tried to keep in touch and interact as we always did, but they began to slowly stop returning my calls... and now I almost never hear from any of them. :confused: I felt totally lost for awhile. But now I've begun to get to know a few people in the apartment building and I'm lucky that my son lives only 8 blocks away, so Ive been able to see him a little more often since moving here.

Everything is a trade-off, I suppose! I have also begun to realize that if I "lost" those friends so easily, then they probably weren't really good friends to begin with!! :rolleyes: And, the truth is that having more peace of mind here (in a place I can actually afford to live) sort of outweighs the fact that those friends fell away!! Bottom line - I know I'm okay, with or without those friends!! ;)