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Addiction & Recovery

LearnedHand

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3. I don't completely hate parties, even though I prefer to be home

Reply to bif (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 03:09 PM

Dec 5

Fortunately the only people whose parties I attend are total normies. No one drinks to excess or stupidity. Do you have the opportunity to find out more about the party hosts before the party? Maybe it won't be too bad? Otherwise, you can plan an early exit with your wife right? She supports your sobriety I assume?

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Six years clean and I still hate/dread parties. [View all] bif Dec 5 OP

Yup chicoescuela Dec 5 #1

Im only one year clean... FirstLight Dec 5 #2

Hang in there FirstLight LearnedHand Dec 5 #4

I don't completely hate parties, even though I prefer to be home LearnedHand Dec 5 #3

Usually I signal her when I've had enough bif Dec 5 #5

An Irish Goodbye? Explain, I'm curious what this is...Thanks in advance!! SWBTATTReg Dec 5 #7

It's also called "Ghosting" bif Dec 5 #8

Yes, now I know, thank you so much! I'm a fond proponent of ghosting or an Irish Goodbye, for sometimes, SWBTATTReg Dec 5 #10

Well, I think that most people don't really lapse into endless alcoholic drinking, some do, of course, but the majority SWBTATTReg Dec 5 #6

Be 35 years ago I got clean. multigraincracker Dec 5 #9

"I break out in handcuffs" Clouds Passing Dec 5 #12

It's not the parties for me, it's the people at them Redleg Dec 5 #11

Only unless I know most of the people there and they're not wasted Clouds Passing Dec 5 #13

Not clean but feel same abt social stuff, esp w food. It helps GPV Dec 5 #14

It was as bad as I thought it would be bif Dec 12 #15

Twenty-eight years clean, and same here. Iggo Dec 21 #16

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