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Ranking The National Songs by How Much I’ve Cried to Them
Trying to get sober was like pulling teeth.
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It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
You can’t see the stars in the city I live in, so I would spend my nights out on my balcony, drinking, letting my eyesight go slack and drift into the black.
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On Staying Sober and What TV Gets Right and Wrong About Alcohol
“I feel like being the only sober person in a group is so much pressure.”
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Three Sober Queers on Their First Drinks and Workplace Drinking Culture
“It’s funny, much like coming out, I always look back on these moments and think ‘Ah that’s when I should have known I had a problem’.”
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“When I Got Sober So Many Relationships Just Ended”: Sober Queers on Friendships and Community
“I came to realize I am a terrible parent when I’m drunk.”
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15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking
Tasting notes: This one is real, like a hallucination. You can feel it, see it, and it leaves very little evidence of its passing through your body. Lingers barely on the tip of the tongue, with high notes of bright genders named like quarks.
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Still Reeling That I’ve Made It
“No one knows, including me, that my overindulgence and competitive drinking is an attempt to assert the only masculinity I know. Toxic.”
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5 Years Sober (Or, the Meanest Lesbian I Know Punched Me in the Face)
“I knew that somewhere along the way, I stopped being sober for her and had started doing it for me — and that realization hit me harder than my own fist.”
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The Freest Bird in the Cage
The women I kiss like to drink red wine, and I drink them in. I taste red wine and I move past it; my deliverance lies elsewhere.
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On Sobriety, Recovery and the Art of Not Dating
“My sobriety buddies warned me that if I violated the ban on dating before I was ready, I might be pushed into a relapse. Instead, I’ve just been pushed into never wanting to date again.”