You know you're an alcoholic when...

[work in progress]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

We should write a book! Unfortunately I can relate to many of these incidents.

- buying cooking wine because the liquor stores are closed on Sundays, even though I have high blood pressure and the salt is deadly

-shopping around for liquor stores so that I don't seem like a regular at any one store

- buying expensive things on line and not remembering buying them

- making a date for the family to go over someone's house, only by chance calling them and realizing we were expected that night

- finding a puddle in our office in the morning which I now believe was pee and telling my husband a glass of water was knocked over (embarassing... even here!)

- making an appointment for a window sales person to come to sell windows, not remembering and buying the windows out of sheer guilt and disgust with myself

- bruises

I can go on and on.........

[JackieClaire]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Thanks Zenny,

.... buying 3 bottles of wine instead of 1 because it's on offer and casually say to the cashier 'well it's so difficult to miss a bargain'

....following day doing the same and saying 'oh it's such a bargain I thought I'd put some away for Christmas'. It's APRIL!

J x

[Way2Much]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you can't figure out why your girlfriend is so angry at you and she has to tell you what you did the night before.

When you wake up to go to the bathroom and find the table has half collapsed with 2 broken legs, towel rack on the floor, and the top of the toilet has mysterously broken off.

You try to come up with a story to tell poeple how you got those scratches on your face but can't figure out what would do that.

When you tell yourself I'll just have one or two drinks today and a week later your still downing a bottle of vodka a day.

[BILLYJACK]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

After a nasty night of hard/heavy drinking, you wake up foggy eyed in the morning and start to brush your teeth, only to realize once you start brushing your teeth, that you put shaving cream on your brush instead of toothpaste.

Yep-- that REALLY happened!

[brittzak]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

This was a good thread...sad but good.

[Beaches]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Very powerful thread.

[Gearhead]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you ride a bicycle to the convenience store and miss the alcohol cutoff time (2am here) and seriously consider stealing a case of beer since the clerk won't sell you one.

When you wake up in your own urine. (YUCK)

[keeta]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

when even after all the above, and almost two solid months sobriety this time around, still pondering drinking when something exceptionally stressful happens.

[AKwineo]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Bought a new box of wine to replace the one that I drank from on lunch break. Didn't want boyfriend to notice the different weight, so I poured out the new one into waterbottles (now hidden in closet) and finshed the old one an threw it away in a garbage not at my house.

Broke down before going to bed wanting to change, boyfriend dosn't know the half of it.

This was all in the day I joined mwo. I am setting a goal to start Oct. 12.

[AKwineo]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

Larisa;355585 wrote: Going on a diet means not eating so you can drink.

TOTALLY relate to this one. But then I drink too much and think it is ok to eat alfredo.

[Beaches]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

I definately can relate to so many of these, I don't even know if I would have any new one's to add.

Welcome AKwineo.

[shirazgirl]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

When you go to bed after having some drinks, wake up in the middle of the night for a pee, pass by a wine glass that still had 1/4 in it, think to yourself, why leave that good wine out, throw it down the back of your throat like a shot and head on back to bed.

[ilovejafa]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

What about finally turning up to AA meeting and they only offer a cup of coffee half full so you don't spill it from the shakes. I then graduated to a full cup the next week. Embarrassing.

[Jandal]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

...when you become the butt of family jokes about your drinking.

[puddytat]

You know you're an alcoholic when...

You recognize that 99% of the bottles in your condo building's shared recycle bin are YOURS!