Coming up on 18 months of sobriety next week...

...which happens to fall exactly on my 33rd birthday! :D

Wow /r/stopdrinking. Life has changed so much for me over the last couple months in all sorts of good ways.

So back over New Years I entered into a long-distance relationship with someone who completely loves and accepts me. The distance was tough and it was starting to get to me. We had a potential move-to-the-same-city deadline for April 2017. By July of this year, I was frustrated with the distance and so I decided to do something about it.

I had been working a full-time job since May 2015 and I reached out to another organization in my girlfriend's city about any potential openings for the job that I do. It's a specialized type of job. They told me there were no openings but they'd keep me in mind for the future.

Well, two weeks later they asked me to provide them with several of my reports and how much time I would need to move. I told them 4 weeks. It turns out they loved my work so much that they pretty much fired their worker and hired me. Three weeks ago, I moved cities and moved in with my girlfriend. We are moving into our own place on October 1st!

I've come a long way. I'm now debt-free. I have an amazing job that I love. I'm in the type of relationship that I've always wanted but thought impossible to have. I've worked so hard for this life.

It really drives home to me on how much alcohol and drugs were holding me back. I'm finally starting to reach my potential that I used to be so scared of.

Thanks /r/stopdrinking.