I grew up a pretty normal life as an only child to younger parents. My family was and are wonderful but I was unfortunately bullied till high school. Those are words I still carry with me. I went through multiple relationships where I was a trophy, one was cultish another is an exhusband. I lived a very intoxicated life for about a decade. I knew I had a problem for the last five years but wasn’t ready to try and stop till I was out of my marriage. I started trying to stop drinking at 30. I relapsed multiple times and was living a pretty horrible and secretive life. About a year ago I started a rehab program and going to AA meetings. My life is so much better. I actually am starting to care about myself.

I happily unceremoniously made to a year.