050: Alcoholic and Match.com, Who Would Have Thought?
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast episode Cameron shares how he has successfully navigated nearly 6 months of sobriety.
In the early stages of a relationship, I was always terrified of the moment when I had to fess up to why I don't drink. I came up with every answer besides the honest answer which is the simple fact I'm an alcoholic. Below is my Match.com profile summary I created eight days ago. The results of this experiment have been miraculous. 2 years ago I would have been surprised by the results, but knowing my fear was completely irrational, I'm not surprised at all.
Hello, my name is Paul and I'm a recovering alcoholic, I'm extremely allergic to horses, at times I struggle with anxiety, and I have been diagnosed ADHD 4 different times by medical professionals.
You're probably wondering why I would lead off with this enticing intro, but after reading a couple profiles, I couldn't get a real idea of who the gals really were... so by being upfront, honest and transparent, I am saving both of us time.
None of these things truly define me, but this is an honest description of who I am. When I first started writing my profile it contained words like funny, outgoing, motivated, happy, and all the other generic descriptors, which do describe me, but I thought I would tell it straight.
You might be an alcoholic if..
- you walk your dog at night with a glass of beer in your hand!!! -Penni
.you make a trip to the liquor store for beer but forget the grocery store for the much needed milk. -Angela
- You go to pee before bed but realize in horror the next morning that you missed the toilet seat by an entire room. -Jamey
-You misplace things..like a decade -Dee
- The first thing you do in the morning is check your Facebook, email, and call record to see what you may have done the night before! -Kathy
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Be sure to expand your recovery network in and Seattle on February 27th and San Francisco on March 5th. Dates for NYC, San Francisco, Denver Costa Rica and Norway are coming soon.
This episode was brought to you by Sober Nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 50. |
| 0:03.0 | Look, I am doing exactly kind of what they have done, although I'm a high-level functioning person, |
| 0:08.0 | this has just got to stop. |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator Podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:18.0 | According to my Recovery Elevator sobriety tracker on my phone, I have been sober for one year four months and three weeks |
| 0:25.6 | On today's podcast I've got Cameron he's been sober for almost six months and he is a university professor with a PhD. |
| 0:33.4 | So maybe I should be saying on today's podcast I have Dr. Cameron. |
| 0:37.8 | Nearly two weeks ago I saw a movie called The Big Short. |
| 0:40.6 | It's got Christian Bell, Steve Corel, Brad Pitt, and it's all about the stock market |
| 0:45.2 | housing bubble mortgage crash crisis that led us into the Great Recession in 2008. |
| 0:50.7 | In the movie, Christian Bale plays this awkward character where you can tell that socially he doesn't quite get it, but upstairs in the dome he's a genius. |
| 0:59.0 | And somewhere in the beginning of the movie, Christian Bale mentions how he met his wife on |
| 1:02.9 | match.com and his profile he said socially awkward guy with a glass eye. Right when I |
| 1:09.5 | heard that I knew I had a challenge in front of me. I'm at the time of my life and I'm serious when I say that I'm at the time of my life right now where I can be emotionally present in a relationship. I've only been at this stage for about six months. |
| 1:23.0 | I was a normal drinker in high school and early college, |
| 1:26.0 | so I think at those times I was better capable of being in a relationship |
| 1:30.0 | than my entire 20s. |
| 1:32.0 | So only recently have I been open to the idea of dating. |
| 1:34.7 | Before I go any further with this podcast let me make it clear right now. I don't |
| 1:38.9 | understand dating at all. In fact I'll put dating, relationships, the whole girls thing, on the same playing |
| 1:46.1 | field of confusion as alcoholism and addiction. They're both freaking confusing. |
| 1:51.2 | So after leaving the movie theater, I decided to give that strategy a try. |
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