Marty D
- Age
- 50
- Sober Since
- 05 / 10 / 2009
- Sober For
- 17 Years & 91 Days
01 What it was like
I did what a lot of us do and I drank until I wanted to kill myself and couldn't stand to look at myself in the mirror. I hit the jumping off point. I was unable to imagine life with alcohol and without it. I was wishing for the end.
I did what a lot of us do and I drank until I wanted to kill myself and couldn't stand to look at myself in the mirror.
02 What happened
My family had an classic intervention for me and sent me to rehab. In rehab, I was handed a big book and started reading it (there was nothing else to do in there). I read how I felt. The guys that wrote the book knew me and wrote about me 30 years before I was born. It convinced me that I was an alcoholic.
03 What it is like now
I am celebrating 8 years of sobriety. Everything I was looking for at the bottom of the bottle I am finding in sobriety. The promises keep coming true. There is so much depth to them, every time I think I have one, a new layer is revealed and it is more than I thought. Life is good.
