How To Relate To A Recovering Alcoholic

There comes a time to the sober-curious when we turn sober-serious. Most times it’s easier to survive the day and get to the next drink, which is why it’s so hard to quit. Sometimes it takes many attempts at sobriety. I had many failures and many mornings spent soul-searching about who I was, how I ended up in this gutter, and who I wanted to be. If you haven’t personally stopped drinking or done the recovery work necessary, you don’t understand. You can’t possibly understand. My wife, for example, has her BA in Behavioral Sciences and worked with the addict population for years. She had several jobs in the mental health field before getting her MA in healthcare administration. She’s one of the smartest people I know, yet she still has no idea what I’m actually going through as an alcoholic. This is why programs like AA work. Despite our personal feelings on what AA believes in, addicts need to be with people who have seen what they’ve seen. They need support, and they need to be around sober people. Drinking is pervasive and ubiquitous. Commercials are polluted with people looking happy while drinking things that do everything to hide the effects and the taste of alcohol. We see thousands of pictures of people smiling with a drink in hand, but no pictures of what they look like the next day or how they feel when they don’t remember putting their kids to bed or fighting with their partners. <a href="https://medium.com/black-bear-recovery/how-to-relate-to-a-recovering-alcoholic-469cb080801f">Learn More</a>