My Dear John Letter to Alcohol Telling booze goodbye is a good way to by Julia Lawrinson Black Bear

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This is the very reason that I created The Alcohol Off Switch blog, and this is the reason that I have decided to share my own letter with you here. When we meet, as we often will, I will acknowledge you, but I will not be spending any time with you. I hope you can respect that, and leave me alone. Being with you showed me what I don’t want in my life anymore.

I went without you this year, and it sucked, especially since you were cheating on me with everyone else. You were definitely putting on a show at the beach, and if you can remember, you finally won me over. Yep, you joined me for the drive home. Of course, that was sorta scary.

How does a letter help in my path to sobriety?

I learned I am no longer prepared to tolerate. By showing me who I don’t want to be, you showed me who I do want to be. I don’t need you to fix the problems you create, I don’t need you to feel, and I don’t need you to make me a better person. You lied and lied, and then lied some more. The truth is you didn’t make anything better.

Stay away from my life and my memories. I am stronger now than I ever was with you and you are a dangerous one to be around. You give false confidence and make-believe happiness. This is my personal goodbye letter to you, goodbye addiction – take notice and listen. With this in mind, who you share your personal goodbye letter to alcohol with is entirely your choice. Writing a goodbye letter to alcohol is quite an amazing tool really.

Goodbye Alcohol: A Breakup Letter Alcohol and You

It did raise some bitter feelings, but also made me think about these feelings. Writing therapy is extremely personal and often allows the writer to be able to express themselves in ways that they may not do in other therapies. I honestly used to think I couldn’t be happy without you in my life, but I want you to know how wrong I was. While life is far from perfect, I have never felt happier than I do now, happier in my own skin, comfortable in who I am. Life still feels a bit shitty quite often, there’s a lot of shitty stuff going on out there, but I can deal with it so much better now I have self-respect.

Over 200 miles of you and me on the road together. We seemed to have a lot of those kinda moments, especially towards the end. When you have decided it is time to part ways with alcohol, a good therapeutic way to announce your decision is by writing a Goodbye Letter to Alcohol . You know the line, it’s not you, it’s me? All these years I thought it was us.

Good Bye Letter to Alcohol

I thought I had lost myself forever, but I hadn’t. I needed to be lost so that goodbye letter to alcohol I could really find myself. I needed to love you so I could leave you.

When I was with you, I felt sexy, fun, popular, desired, and free. The exact opposite of how I felt when I was sober. At first I didn’t notice it was you. I thought it was “them,” it couldn’t be you because you were my friend.

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I’m not even sure where to begin…what to say. I’m writing this letter to say goodbye. I never really thought I’d ever say those words to you, or really let you go. In the beginning there seemed to be so much promise with you and I.