I still get annoyed when I have to call Football by its American term: Soccer. You think I’d get over it after over four decades of living in the USA! Why mention this? Well, I’m from the UK originally, and I’ve lived in sunny central Florida for the past 40+ years. I just heard that …
There comes a point in time when you know you have to get help. And when you discover the help you think you need costs an arm and a leg? Well, then it’s easy to talk yourself out of getting help. Right? You think can put your drinking problem on the back burner, but you’re …
How many times have you told yourself “I’ll quit drinking tomorrow” and when tomorrow comes, you head straight for the bottle … again. To say it’s frustrating is an understatement. We wonder what’s wrong with us. Old Habits It’s simply a bad habit. You’re on automatic pilot! In the “olden days,” the saying was “It …
We all get ’em. Those annoying urges. Sometimes you can quash ’em, sometimes you don’t and you give in. In a previous blog post, we followed up with Claire’s newly-created ritual and expanded upon creating a new ritual to replace the old in an effort to beat the urge to drink. At the end of …
It’s funny how easily your stomach turns its nose up at odors you once found pleasant but now abhor. A couple of nights a week, hubby pops himself a beer. Nothing wrong with that. He can handle alcohol and finds that one beer is enough — just enough to relax him after a long day at …
Guest Post by Alex Hello, I’m Alex (male). This is a story of what I call my “formal date from Hell.” It’s a demonstration of how being drunk can have really negative consequences. The story is true but the names and locations have been changed for privacy reasons. Keeping it Formal I used to work …
Did you know that the average body (male or female), processes alcohol at the rate of 1 drink per hour? Whether you’re fat or thin, the processing speed stays the same. What does differ, though, is the blood alcohol level, known as BAC (blood alcohol content) between the sexes. What sex you are has a …
