Originally Posted by
venuscat 
Oh yes sobermafia.....with you all the way....when I got sober I was unable to watch a ton of shows....so many of them revolve around alcohol....craziness....it is in almost every scene in many shows...
I also used to like to drink with them (made me feel like I was doing nothing at all wrong, sort of), the whole glam drinking thing looked so cool and I wanted to join in. Ridiculous hey? On so many levels.
Even Shameless. Even though it shows how far drugs and alcohol could take us, I was still triggered by Frank Gallagher. (Drunk matriarch).
I decided to stop watching tv all together....the advertisements were often worse than the actual shows. And I still do that....I watch everything I watch on my laptop with no adds or movies etc that I put on a flash drive and plug into the tv.
Sorry, that was a lot....but yes.....I totally hear you.
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More power to you to cut the shows out completely. I get why you probably had to do that, but I'm not sure I can do that. I mean I'm trying tell myself that I am getting more out of the shows watching them sober etc, but I guess I need to counteract the glamorization of drinking aspect and not letting it trigger me.
I hate to cut the shows out completely because then I think I'm going to resent it and feel like I am missing out and that being sober stinks and is punishment.
Besides, I have a few coworkers where we talk about TV shows like The Bachelor the next day and the train wreck that the show is.
I don't have cable so I very seldom have to watch commercials, so I guess I'm lucky there.
I can't blame the TV shows completely. I think it's a combination of things - work stress, family stress, etc. But it is definitely different watching shows sober, and I'll admit that sometimes watching the shows makes me miss wine.
But I know that the reality shows just show a glimpse of people's lives and that they aren't drinking 100 percent of the time etc.
Ugh! I sound messed up. But I guess I just have to be honest and put it out there, that this aspect of being sober has its pros and cons.