Alcohol Finally Beat Me! - By Don
I came from a
dysfunctional family. My mother divorced my father when I was 10
yrs old and remarried her new husband adopted me and my two
brothers. we grew to love him dearly but my mother would have
nothing to do with us after she had my two half brothers. They
were everything to her and us other three were nothing. I played
sports and was in clubs at school and was the only kid there
without a parent at functions. I got teased a lot for this too! I
tried to please her in every way to get some acknowledgment from
her I excelled in everything I did. Nothing worked and even on
her death bed she wanted nothing to do with me.
I turned to alcohol at 13 to relieve the pain. I went through a
marriage and remarried a wonderful woman with five kids. she went
through treatment programs, drunken tirades , crying jags ect
even when al-non told her to leave me. I was in and out of A.A.
for yrs. Finally on January 27, 1998 I finally surrendered !
Alcohol had finally beat me. I was arrested for a D.W.I. In my 18
wheeler in ohio and spent 30 days in jail where I had a spiritual
awakening and God took the obsession to drink from me. Since then
I have had a complete change in my life! I attend a church and
work with other alcoholics, attend A.A. again and can see the
miracles God gives me on a daily basis. I have never felt so good
about myself. I am so grateful he put this wonderful woman in my
life who stuck it out through a lot of tornadic destructive
years. we had lost everything except each other and for this I am
so grateful. Now we have everything that
God has blessed us with and a sober serene life. I keep a
constant contact with God hourly and praise him for doing for me
what no earthly power could do, take alcohol from my life and let
me realize the true blessings he has given me. Thank you for
letting me share some of my story with you and pray that it may
help some other suffering alcoholic to realize there is hope, and
to keep me clean and sober one day at a time.
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