E115: How the Family Could React to Your Recovery

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Send us a text I was not prepared for how my family would react to the work I had to do to stay sober. Specifically, going to meetings. Going to a lot of meetings. At one point, my wife asked me, "When do you stop going to those meetings?" How do I tell my wife I don't ever stop, just like I don't ever stop being an alcoholic. Steve and I talk about our challenges with getting sober and how it affected the family. It took about two years before my wife was reall...

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0:00.0	I'm Matt.
0:01.0	Hey, I'm Steve.
0:01.9	Hey, I'm John.
0:03.1	This is the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.8	We're here for The Sober Curious, the new guy, and the old timer.
0:10.3	We're here to talk about the stuff anyone looking to live, alcohol-free has-to-face day-to-day, and how we overcame those struggles.
0:17.3	We speak for no 12-step group, but we do try to remain anonymous.
0:22.6	You're not alone. This is the sober friends podcast. Here's one for you, Steve, when I first got into recovery, one of
0:28.1	those things that I always wanted to know, that I didn't anticipate, how is my family going
0:35.3	to react when I decided to get sober?
0:38.0	More particularly, the time demands on getting sober.
0:43.1	And that took a long time.
0:46.5	It's different for everybody, right?
0:48.2	I mean, it depends on what you're coming in from.
0:51.4	You know, I have a perspective that's actually two perspectives
0:54.2	because I came in once and I came in with two different relationships. So, and they were both
1:00.0	very, very different. So that's very interesting because I think your kids were much younger the
1:04.2	first time, much older the second time with a different wife. Right. And the, you know, the way I came in
1:09.8	was different. You know, like when i came in the first time
1:12.4	i was really really beaten down had gone through a fairly long stretch of really heavy alcoholic
1:20.2	type drinking and was really just just beaten down and it was pretty obvious to everyone around me
1:26.7	and in me even by that point that I
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