tealily

Awesome post. Insightful and beautifully put. Thank you, Big S, and to those who bumped it.

Even if we managed to, say, pay bills on time, and get the bare minimum done -- even occasionally excelling at a few things -- there's no question that my excessive drinking, and its daily physical and emotional toll, took up all the space, energy and will for creating a deeper, more meaningful, and fuller, healthier life, for me and my family. I put up a good front, but I was miserable and had lost myself. It was exhausting. I don't want to live that way anymore.