You’re not spiraling. But you’re not okay either. You’re functioning—barely. You make it to meetings, hit deadlines, remember birthdays. You also drink more than you
You didn’t check into a treatment center. You didn’t sit in the intake chair or unpack your past in group therapy. But if your partner
There was no dramatic crash. No DUI, no lost job, no intervention. Just an invisible unraveling that only I could see. I was still delivering.
I didn’t think I had a real problem. Everyone around me smoked. Weed was casual, social, part of the culture. No one called it a
Some lies whisper. Others sound oddly reasonable. “It’s not that bad yet.” You’ve probably said it to yourself. Maybe even today. It’s the phrase we
It wasn’t the first promise. And it probably wasn’t the fifth. You told yourself it would be different this time. Just a drink here and
The hardest part of getting sober isn’t always the cravings. It’s what comes after. The quiet. The wide-open spaces. The realization that some people you
I see you. You’re not dramatic or broken or in denial. You’re just… scared. Not of sobriety exactly, but of what you might lose if
Dear You, I know you’re not afraid of hard things. You’ve done brave things with a drink in your hand or something in your system
Some people hit rock bottom with sirens, job loss, or interventions. Mine was quieter. I was still showing up to work. Still making rent. Still
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