When you arrange these thoughts on paper, it can help you make room for all these conflicting thoughts. When I started to realize that something was very wrong, you protested. You tried to manipulate me, to beg, to maintain your goodbye letter to my addiction grip on my life. You told me I would be nothing without you, showed me all the ways my life would be less without you. I wrote this post on my old website back in 2017, in a flurry of emotional release via my keyboard. I was struck then by the similarities between how I felt about alcohol, and my experience within an abusive relationship.
Acknowledge the Relationship and the Perceived Happy Moments
- The National Institutes of Health notes that writing for therapy has a long, valuable history in psychology.
- How could you come between my family and me?
- I am now determined to live out the rest of my life without you.
- Did it stop being good company and become a liability?
- If I’m alone, it doesn’t feel so alone when I have my bottle buddy with me.
- Dan S is a retired electrician from a medium sized town near Chicago, Illinois.
I am not sure now that you ever really loved me, although you assured me you did. I needed you, I often couldn’t get through my days without you. Whatever happened in my life, you were always there to help me to celebrate the good times, to soothe the bad, and muddle through the mediocre. If they didn’t love you as much as I did, I couldn’t be friends with them.
- I have witnessed the way you consume us like gasoline thrown on a fire.
- I have watched you struggle with your addiction to alcohol, and I have seen how hard you have tried to overcome it.
- Why are you angry or hate alcohol or drugs now?
- A friend that showed me a way to relax using my breath, not wine.
- When we first met, I just knew we would be life-long friends and for a long time, we had a blast together.
Paying for Treatment
I wrote a break-up letter to Alcohol too, and the weight that lifted. I even buried it in a cemetery down the street from my house. My new relationship with sobriety is by far the best one ever. If I’m alone, it doesn’t feel so alone when I have my bottle buddy with me. When I’m worried my therapist pouring out of a Coors light bottle could calm me.
Write your own goodbye letter to alcohol
I will find new sources of joy and happiness in healthy actions and habits. I will seek the support of an addiction treatment center who cares about me. Declare your decision to end the addiction and your commitment to Alcohol Use Disorder a healthier life through treatment and support.
Have nothing to do on the weekend, just add alcohol, it’ll spice it enough. Have a good day no better way to celebrate. It’s a sunny, rainy, windy, foggy, sunny with a chance of rain, rainy with a chance of sun, liquor will make it better day. I know what you’re thinking, what runs through your mind considering a life without alcohol. Then it started affecting other people but I still stood by your side.
- You didn’t force yourself on me…I was just as willing to begin our long friendship as you.
- One that showed me a new way I could live.
- My wife will smile, my health will improve, my wallet will fatten and I will smile also.
- However, I also need to be honest with you about my own feelings and needs.
- For too long, I let you control me and even hated myself at times.
- We take a holistic, evidence-based approach to help you heal once and for all.
He also lets alcohol know the hope he holds for a future without it. As I sit down to write this letter, I do so with a heart full of hope and a mind full of possibilities. Despite the challenges we have faced, I believe that there is a positive future of healing ahead for both of us. I am writing this letter to you to affirm my own self-worth and independence. Your addiction to alcohol has caused me a great deal of pain and suffering, and I can no longer continue in this way.
