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Easyway to end drinking (if you live with your parents)

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  • 14-07-2010 12:07pm
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    zero_nine
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭


    Tell your mum its a problem. I landed home drunk on a very inappropriate day, and my mum, who is never angry at me was very very angry. I had no other resort than to tell how much of a problem it has been for me. I was drunk so I showed all the books I had been reading etc. and with the no-nonsense approach of an Irish mother she explained to me that it was the end of it for me and I know for a fact she's right. I know I won't get away with anymore and I am glad of that fact. She knows to what extent it was a problem.

    Its all very well telling complete strangers that you have a problem, because they won't hold you to account- I know because I've been in treatment etc, but nobody outside of medicine knew about.

    I would never have told my mum ordinarily, but I was pretty hammered and spilled the beans. The week that followed was pretty embarrassing and I was worried that she would be worried about me or that she would warn me not to drink when I was going but not so- its been all good. I went out at the weekend there and had just as good a time and now the problem has faded.

    In the past where the problem has faded I have returned to drinking but I know I can't do that now (and don't want to either)


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    eire2009
    Registered Users Posts: 432 ✭✭eire2009


    zero_nine wrote: »
    Tell your mum its a problem. I landed home drunk on a very inappropriate day, and my mum, who is never angry at me was very very angry. I had no other resort than to tell how much of a problem it has been for me. I was drunk so I showed all the books I had been reading etc. and with the no-nonsense approach of an Irish mother she explained to me that it was the end of it for me and I know for a fact she's right. I know I won't get away with anymore and I am glad of that fact. She knows to what extent it was a problem.

    Its all very well telling complete strangers that you have a problem, because they won't hold you to account- I know because I've been in treatment etc, but nobody outside of medicine knew about.

    I would never have told my mum ordinarily, but I was pretty hammered and spilled the beans. The week that followed was pretty embarrassing and I was worried that she would be worried about me or that she would warn me not to drink when I was going but not so- its been all good. I went out at the weekend there and had just as good a time and now the problem has faded.

    In the past where the problem has faded I have returned to drinking but I know I can't do that now (and don't want to either)

    I had the same problem when I was 13 with my mum also, they can be a pain.. :D


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    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    My mother is a pioneer, I wouldn't dream of drinking in front of her or arriving home drunk.

    The Irish mammy is still all powerful :D


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    CatHerder
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭CatHerder


    zero_nine wrote: »
    In the past where the problem has faded I have returned to drinking but I know I can't do that now (and don't want to either)
    That's a good thing to know, because the mind can play tricks on you. Irrespective of the amount of evidence pointing to my problem I can still sometimes think that I'd be able to go back to it.


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