Can Alcohol Destroy Relationships?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning - In todays episode we mention Domestic Violence.
In this emotional episode of Sober Awkward Vic and Hamish talk in detail about long term repercussions form short term lifestyles. Vic tells Hamish about a very toxic relationship she found herself in many years ago, how her drinking made her vulnerable to being mistreated and how she used booze to numb out the fact her relationship wasn’t working.
Would his situation have happened if alcohol was out of the picture?
So, aside from the regretful one-night stands, sloppy snogs in alleyways and whirlwind romances – What happens when you stay with someone when booze is the only thing you have in common? Is it ever a good idea to start a relationship when pissed?
And what are the red flags to look out for?
Find out why being sober is always the best way to enter a new relationship and why being sober means your love could last a lifetime, in this inspiring and hard-hitting episode.
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| 0:00.0 | The kettle's boiled, Vic. |
| 0:03.0 | Great, perfect timing. Just a dash of milk for me, please mate. |
| 0:08.0 | Here you go. Should we get started then? |
| 0:16.0 | Have you ever woken up on a Sunday morning and said, I'm never drinking again, |
| 0:21.4 | and then found yourself waving 50 bucks at a barman by happy hour? |
| 0:25.1 | Are you wondering why everyone else can stop at one, |
| 0:27.8 | while you head to a dodgy after-party with a weird bloke called Disco Dave? |
| 0:31.6 | If so, it might be time to take a deeper look at your relationship with your reliable social crutch, alcohol. |
| 0:38.1 | On each episode, we'll investigate our own dysfunctional dealings with booze |
| 0:42.2 | and find out if it's possible to stop this deeply ingrained habit |
| 0:45.4 | before things get too messy. |
| 0:47.5 | Yep, we're going to open up a shame shed of humiliating drinking stories |
| 0:51.1 | to help you understand why waking up from a booze coma each weekend with a kebab sticking out of your top pocket might actually be negatively impacting your health. |
| 0:59.9 | Hamish and I are here to delve into what it's like being sober. An unwanted warts and all look into why giving up those cheeky pints or putting down those mummy wines will make you feel happier, help your anxiety in mental health and turn you into the most sparkly authentic version of you. Won't that mean I become boring though, Vic? Well, Hamish, we'll just have to wait and see. I'm Victoria Vanstone. I'm Hamish Adams Cairns. And this is Sober Awkward. |
| 1:35.0 | Vic, I feel like you're going to have a good answer to this. |
| 1:35.5 | Right. |
| 1:40.1 | What is the least sexy thing you have done recently? |
| 1:42.7 | Oh, just generally everything I do is the least sexy thing. |
| 1:43.2 | Okay. |
| 2:20.7 | Yeah, I tell my husband about hairs in my chin sometimes. Yeah. He's like, that's disgusting. I don't want to know about that. I'm like, it's not disgusting. It's my hormones. Deal with it. The only reason I ask this is I have recently started taping my mouth shut when I go to sleep. Somebody else is telling me about taping their mouth shuts and their sleep. It is not sexy. I actually did think it was for menopause. It's something that people do during the menopause. Yeah. To stop hot flushes, apparently. Okay. So it's just that nasal breathing is better than mouth breathing at all times. Okay. In all situations, including exercise. So this just guarantees that you at least nasal breathe for eight, nine hours a night. |
| 2:20.7 | Yeah. in all situations including exercise. So there's just guarantees that you at least nasal breathe for eight, nine hours a night. |
| 2:21.2 | Yeah. |
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