Just stopping drinking doesn't all of a sudden throw a switch and make your life better. No, it does not. That's a big fallacy. If your life sucked before when you were drinking, well, suck it up, because it's still gonna suck.
The thing with quitting is that it allows you to tackle these problems while sober. Understand that? While sober. Not under the influence of the drug known as alcohol. No ethanol in your veins. No mind-twisting physiological fuckups from the intake of it.
You can tackle life's problems while sober, and that's a big fucking step. But the problems are still going to exist, and that can be daunting.
So no, life doesn't get better all of a sudden, after a month, after 3 months, after almost a year. I'm still dealing with the same problems that drove me to drink. The thing is that I take my happiness in knowing that I'm doing it while sober. I rarely have a chance to look back at my life, but when I do, I know that the mistakes I made while sober were real mistakes while sober, and I can't blame alcohol on them.
Being sober is a tool that allows you to tackle things with a sober state of mind. Don't be sold on that all of a sudden things will get better.
You're missing the point: you are now sober. So you are empowered.
Things don't get better without your action. The thing you're missing is, now that you are sober, they won't be worse because of alcohol. It s tough on the inside looking in, but on the outside, you can see it if you look at yourself in the mirror. And you are now empowered. Try to understand that, you now have power over your life. You do. Not alcohol. Not a life with alcohol as a part of it.
I wish I could say "life will get better" but sometimes the throw of the dice makes things impossible to predict. But you can take homage in the fact that you are tackling life's issues while sober, and that unto itself is a task.
So be proud. Don't dismiss your sobriety.
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