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and also got lightly slapped by Will Smith after kissing him.

Why does the cobbler’s children have no shoes?

I never comment on Kinja, but I am today to thank you, Sarah, for how helpful and lovely this series has been. I am 110 days sober today. I was a binge/blackout drinker since starting college and am now in my late 20s. I still carry the shame and self-loathing that I was feeling and building on for all those years,

There is an interesting article in The Atlantic called The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous. It caused a bit of an uproar among AA proponents (the title says it all), but it does go into some detail about therapy and medication, and might be a good place for you to start looking.

What a timely piece for me - thanks for writing it, Sarah.

I dried out for a few months, about five years ago, because I noticed that I was getting into a kind of cycle with beer... get home from work, pop a cold one, enjoy, pop a cold one, enjoy, repeat beers until sleepy then off to bed. I did return to drink again, but way more consciously, after that. I figured out that

But no seriously the money saved is amazing. It's funding my trip to Japan later this year!

Underpromising and overperforming is a seriously underrated skill. And you are right, people have A LOT of opinions about your drinking. I know people who would probably never consider me an alcoholic, simply because I didn’t drink as much as they could/would/do. But alcoholism is one of those things that is so