This is my life, but not my secret - people I trust know I am in recovery and look up to me because of it. I have a successful career and would not be the person I am today if not for my past. Besides, the straightest person at my work is a mean, crazy borderline who hurts people off her emotion fueled tirades.
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Don't ever tell them. They will never look at you the same.
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omg...you guys are f***ing killing me..lol
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Well done, changing your life around. Isn't is funny that people who are your friends and co-workers now would have shunned you 15 years ago?
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the first post took the words right outta' my mouth!
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good job
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So, it's all water under the bridge
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DAMN! first post got me! shit!
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But you're not now and that's what matters. good for you.
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I had this problem too and thought i had everyone fooled into thinking i was a good guy. The truth is I am who they saw me to be. I wasn't that person I use to be. You probably are straight laced and you are fooling yourself into thinking that you aren't and are just fooling yourself. Let go of the things you did. If you were that person you wouldn't be where you are now. You would still be in that van.
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That was 15 years ago, what they don't know won't hurt them.
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Congrats to you for getting clean. Not everyone is strong enough.
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Atleast you had a van.I don't.............
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Good work - my hat is off to you! Stay strong!(Just got 12 years sober)
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This is alot of peoples secret, it's only important that you remember it everyday, cause you're just one bad decision from going back down that road
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That is true for me as well. Most do not about my past. I learned early that it is difficult for people to hear things about your past life and I had to becareful of where I expressed myself about my past. Good idea not to mention it to co-workers an boss. Stick with those you trust with your life. Your past is a gift in truth because it made you and I the respectable,great people we are today. Keep up the fight and don't ever go back. Maybe volunteer to help other addicts. Your ok
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Leave the past in the past. Keep your secret.
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same here, everyone thinks i am a nerd thru and thru, not realizing i use to deal coke and heroin by the kilo
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Enjoy life and keep moving forward. Every positive event builds on the next and moves you forward in a positive light.Enjoy Life - It only lasts 100 or so years anyways.
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The key word is WAS - happy clean day (everyday) Blessings and take care.
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f***ing junkies. putting a pucking needle in ur arm....nast f***s
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I have a friend who lives in his car. I wish everyday that he would be drug free. I am happy for you that you have made the change!! You are blessed!!
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good for you, i like you, turned your life for good, keep your head up, and dont look back, or even allow anyone at work to know your past, you live for the future, and they will destroy you if they knoq you have a weakness, be strong, and be drug free for life
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4 years sober here. Congrats on staying clean because it's not easy. Most fail that try but the rest succeed. It takes true courage to stay clean or sober.Not everyone needs to know everything about your life, past or present.
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Something I learned while training to play professional billiards. Dwell on your last game all of 30 seconds and then look forward to your next. If you live in the past, it WILL affect your future. You're a new man. Look forward to this newness.
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I wish my mom would stop using. BTW I am 38yrs old. I really miss my "old" mom. I look into her eyes and see nothing. :(
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yesterday is gone focus on tomorrow.have fun and live.the only thing that matters is how you feel about yourself
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I am a recovered drunk. once a drunk always a drunk. if i don't pick up that first drink today i won't get drunk. june 2 will be 19 years one day at time.
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33 years and counting.....I could care less who knows what I used to do...stay strong my brother
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i work with a very straight laced christian girl in the medical field, very good and loving with her patients. she just confessed to some of us that she used to strip and hook and do drugs. shes not like that now. she was trying to give hope and support to a coworker and it worked. her secret is safe with a chosen few. she feels a little relief cause she spent alot of time worrying someone will find out. no one judged
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Aren't we awesome? We WERE who we were back then. We ARE who we are now. It's the reward we get for getting clean!
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You are who you are.You were who you were.You will be who you will be.Don't sweat it.
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yes some of you peole are harsh and should not be allowed on this site.
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15 years, awesome!
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damn you people are harsh
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Raise your head high honey! I was right there most likely the party girl next to you.. And my kids have different jobs. I walk a clean life now and the love of my family and for them.. they never really new how bad I was... neither did I until I quit it all and sobered out to be a good mom. Don't judge who I was judge who I AM>> ME : )Help someone in need but never let them drag you or your family down with them..I have many friends still there in the gutter who tell me they are proud of me.. and the jealous b****es who wanna be me!
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Pay taxes....donate your time to homeless shelters, help an old person until YOU feel you have paid your debtGood Luck
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Be proud of your self
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I LIVE THE SAME LIFE AS YOU DO. I AM A DIFFERENT PERSON, BUT I STILL HAVE A HARD TIME EXPLAINING WHY I HAVE THREE KIDS FROM THREE DIFFERENT DADS. I WISH I COULD JUST TELL THEM "I WAS DOPED OUT AND NOT THINKING, BUT I LOVE MY KIDS NO MATTER WHO THE DADS ARE, AND I AM A GOOD MOTHER SO LEAVE ME ALONE AND DON'T JUDGE" BUT I LIE INSTEAD AND SAY THEY ARE ALL FROM THE SAME MAN. :o)
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I LIVE THE SAME LIFE AS YOU DO. I AM A DIFFERENT PERSON, BUT I STILL HAVE A HARD TIME EXPLAINING WHY I HAVE THREE KIDS FROM THREE DIFFERENT DADS. I WISH I COULD JUST TELL THEM "I WAS DOPED OUT AND NOT THINKING, BUT I LOVE MY KIDS NO MATTER WHO THE DADS ARE, AND I AM A GOOD MOTHER SO LEAVE ME ALONE AND DON'T JUDGE" BUT I LIE INSTEAD AND SAY THEY ARE ALL FROM THE SAME MAN. :o)
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Yay recovery from an addict that gives it up to a higher power every day that for just this next 24 hrs I won't use.
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Be proud, be strong and always remember the journey. Continue your wonderful growth and success. They don't need to know. We all have secrets.
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