You're listening to season six of the Recovery Happy Hour Podcast.

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Let's do this. Hi everyone welcome to Recovery Happy Hour where we talk about life beyond the

bottle and what happens after we stop drinking I'm your host Tricia and I'm coming to you live today wearing my

fancy sweatsuit that actually matches. Thank you for joining me. On today's

interview you're going to hear a story that very clearly explains how tightly we hold on to

wanting to keep drinking and also explains the dynamic of how drinking can play a

role in dividing a marriage. It's also the inspiration behind why I'm comparing quitting

drinking and getting married on today's introduction. This podcast has always been

aimed at the person who's still on the fence about quitting drinking.

So if that's you and you're listening, dear listener, this one is especially dedicated to you.

As I edited this episode, I kept shaking my head at how we make the decision to quit drinking so much harder than it needs to be,

how we fight to justify our reasons for doing it. We defend this thing that keeps making us miserable and we make excuses for why we need to

keep going back to it.

That's one of the weird mysteries behind addiction and for me it was also one of the hardest parts just

deciding to quit after going back and forth and back and forth for so long on

whether or not I even wanted to try sobriety. It's like I was window shopping for a decade, standing

outside and staring at a dress on display, picking it apart, wondering what it felt like,

but assuming it might not fit, analyzing the stitching on the hem,

whether the structure on the zipper was going to work for me, without ever just walking into the store

and trying on the damn dress to find out.

If you're listening to this show and you're still drinking,

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