Hi Struggles,
Thanks for starting this post, i have found everyone's replies very helpful. I too have children and have had times when I don't remember putting them to bed. I had been doing better as of late, but then we had company in town and following that went on vacation - so 3 weeks of nights where I"m with people who are drinking and of course I drank too. My problem got worse very quickly and I woke up this morning realizing my memories of last nite are very faint, and I don't remember going to bed at all.
I just ordered a book some one recommended - Allen Carr's Easy Way to Quit Drinking. It had a lot of good reviews on Amazon, although I ended up ordering it from Barnes and Noble because Amazon said it would not ship for 2 weeks. I take the kudzu now and have noticed some benefit and I'm also going to order the l-glutamine (sp?) that everyone is recommending.
I am shooting for an AF nite tonight. I hope to just get my boys involved in some sort of physical activity - maybe the pool or a bike ride - which i always find very helpful. It is so much harder to quit I think when you have kids because you can't just take a walk whenever you want! A couple nights when I did not have the kids recently I just stayed on the couch and read my book ALL nite. That kept my mind occupied and I managed to not drink at all.
My bf is very tired of my drinking as well - he is very supportive of my efforts to reduce/quit AL but he has begun really obsessing about it. Constantly asking how much I drank the previous night, always asking what he can do to help, etc. It is incredibly stressful to me although i totally understand it as I tend to get quite drunk around him on the nights I don't have my boys.
Anyway, this is much longer than I had intended. I will be thinking of everyone today and I wish you all the best of luck!
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