Certain behaviors particular to millennials do suggest a riskier relationship with alcohol. If I were to pinpoint the moment my drinking became truly out of control in a sustained way, forming my future relationship with and dependence on alcohol, it would be in college. I believe that many of us are predisposed to crutches, to […]
The main question I think we should be asking ourselves is this: “If I could find another way to deal with mommy anxiety, guilt, pressure, and monotony, would I try it?” The last place on earth you’d expect for a wine joke to fall flat is around a bunch of mom bloggers. They practically invented sayings like […]
It wasn’t until after I became a mother at age 34 that I began to understand where terms like “Mommy’s little helper” and “Mommy juice” came from. With alcoholism and addiction strong in my family line, I grew up with a deep anxiety that someday this condition might wake up inside me, too. Never able […]
