She's AWFUL.

Addicted to Recovery: The Interactive Memoir

Why would I quit drinking when I still liked me better when I was drinking, and the confounding thing was that other people did too.
Well, that's what I believed at least.
I didn’t have much to offer in a relationship, but that was never so much my concern. What was important was what I could get out of it. What I needed was a sense of legitimacy, of identity, a role to play in the world, and since I wasn’t participating in my own life too much, a role in someone else’s life would do. In the movies, getting the guy, or girl, is the end of the movie, the happily ever after, the resolution, and my goodness did I crave resolution, or maybe more urgently, redemption. If I could be everything to someone, then I wouldn’t have to agonize about feeling like nothing to myself.
I may have failed to mention I was already in a committed relationship with alcohol, and not everyone's down for playing second fiddle to a bottle.
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Here is a list of suicide crisis hotlines by country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines
Here are links to support groups with an online presence that can be vital in recovery:
For a comprehensive list of 12 Step Meetings:
https://12step.org/social/online-meetings
Smart Recovery:
https://www.smartrecovery.org/community
Refuge Recovery
https://www.refugerecovery.org
And guess what! I was on other podcasts, which I highly recommend! They are both doing great work in the recovery space.
https://www.recoveryelevator.com/re-349-the-inner-voice/?fbclid=IwAR3PZTlbDHfVeqAtdcHyD4tcjm-S9KhYNDUfQtGBJJ_Pe0L6dyJrnNDTwJ8
https://beyondbeliefsobriety.com/

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