Why Can't I Be A Normal Drinker?
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
To continue our new weekly retrospective feature - we are heading back to the first ever episode of Sober Awkward.
A lot of people try and fail drinking moderately for a long time before eventually becoming sober. 'Most people seem to be able to do it so why can't I?' is a question you may have asked yourself a few hundred times!
Vic and Lucy share their experiences of battling with this question and discuss the effect that drinking had on their children.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't I drink like a normal person. Why, why is it that I see my friends going for a |
| 0:13.7 | jog on a Sunday morning and I'm lying in my bed unable to move my head for 15 hours |
| 0:18.8 | in between, you know, visits to the bathroom. |
| 0:21.9 | I couldn't understand like why I wasn't able. |
| 0:25.4 | Why can't I do this? |
| 0:26.5 | That was really one of the main questions. |
| 0:28.6 | And that was the problem. |
| 0:29.4 | That's why I didn't stop because I just, I was just trying to learn. |
| 0:33.5 | I wanted to train myself to be a good boozer. |
| 0:36.2 | It was a massive mistake I made for many, many years. |
| 0:39.0 | It was like, oh, yeah, I'll have waters between wines, and then I'll do dry July, and then |
| 0:44.4 | I'll have parasitamil before I go to bed and a pint of water. |
| 0:47.5 | I was trying all the time to be an excellent boozer so that I wasn't going to get anxiety |
| 0:52.4 | the next day. |
| 0:53.8 | And it just wasn't |
| 0:55.0 | reality for me because when I would go out and I'd see friends sipping on a glass of wine, |
| 1:00.5 | when I'd be up, you know, they'd had that one glass the whole evening and I would have been to |
| 1:04.7 | the bar five times. And I used to stand at the bar looking back at my friends going, you know, |
| 1:10.4 | how come they're all sitting there all normal, looking all pretty still? And I'm all blotchy with red wine-stained teeth, like wanting to go to a nightclub. I couldn't understand like where I was going wrong. But actually it was because I was drinking five times more than everybody else. And I, and I saw them and I wanted to be like them. And I couldn't. So that was one of |
| 1:28.9 | the main questions I asked myself in those moments was, why can't I drink like a normal person? |
| 1:34.4 | Why do I keep doing to this myself? And the one that really led me to seek help was, why am I being a |
| 1:41.3 | shit parent? Because of course, on Sundays, I wasn't able to function as a normal |
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