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In reply to the discussion: Today is the 25th anniversary of my sobriety. [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)99. Peace to you, too, MarianJack!
And thank YOU for sharing what this day means to you. I'm sure by now you've heard plenty of Happy Birthdays and Congrats all around, so let me just say that I'm real glad to hear that you've got all of those years sober.
My SO will celebrate his 22nd year of clean and sober living this summer, but he accomplished that without any meetings, so the kudos he deserves for managing to beat his addictions are few, tho I do always bake him a nice chocolate cake and thank him for choosing life rather than the terrible path he'd been headed down. He calls me his normy and while I'll never be able to fully understand the power of any addiction, I can appreciate the struggle that it takes to overcome one.
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k and r and congratulations!! thank you for sharing this important milestone with us.
niyad
Jan 2015
#22
If I am right about that, I am also right that you are deserving and always were.
merrily
Jan 2015
#113
I hear ya, I know a lot of 12 steppers who get it, and aren't threatened by other avenues
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2015
#105
Congrats, from the heart, and here's to the next 25 years of one day at a time.
Yo_Mama
Jan 2015
#70