A.J. Daulerio

No more beach volleyball days anymore, you know? So things were just different for me and I didn't know where to start. And I think that that is just like the feeling that most people go into this with. Like if you're trying to get sober, right? And this difference between stopping drinking and trying to get sober.

No more beach volleyball days anymore, you know? So things were just different for me and I didn't know where to start. And I think that that is just like the feeling that most people go into this with. Like if you're trying to get sober, right? And this difference between stopping drinking and trying to get sober.

No more beach volleyball days anymore, you know? So things were just different for me and I didn't know where to start. And I think that that is just like the feeling that most people go into this with. Like if you're trying to get sober, right? And this difference between stopping drinking and trying to get sober.

The difference is the changes that I needed to make about myself that I always wanted to make, I was absolutely incapable of doing while I was drunk or on drugs. But now I was absolutely forced to. into kind of actually confronting those things and given the choice of basically, okay, I have to change or I'm probably going to have to go back to living the way that I was living before.

The difference is the changes that I needed to make about myself that I always wanted to make, I was absolutely incapable of doing while I was drunk or on drugs. But now I was absolutely forced to. into kind of actually confronting those things and given the choice of basically, okay, I have to change or I'm probably going to have to go back to living the way that I was living before.

The difference is the changes that I needed to make about myself that I always wanted to make, I was absolutely incapable of doing while I was drunk or on drugs. But now I was absolutely forced to. into kind of actually confronting those things and given the choice of basically, okay, I have to change or I'm probably going to have to go back to living the way that I was living before.

And that wasn't, I wouldn't say I was going to die, but I would have been completely unhappy and nothing good would have ever happened. I would have just been sinking further and further down into a morass of self-pity and substances.

And that wasn't, I wouldn't say I was going to die, but I would have been completely unhappy and nothing good would have ever happened. I would have just been sinking further and further down into a morass of self-pity and substances.

And that wasn't, I wouldn't say I was going to die, but I would have been completely unhappy and nothing good would have ever happened. I would have just been sinking further and further down into a morass of self-pity and substances.

Not at all.

Not at all.

Not at all.

Well, I wrote about it in one essay where I describe a lot of those sort of attempts at reconnecting with people as a sober person. And some of the people I said, it was kind of just like, instead of a catching up period, it was like an exit interview. We're just kind of realizing that we weren't going to be part of each other's lives in any significant way anymore.

Well, I wrote about it in one essay where I describe a lot of those sort of attempts at reconnecting with people as a sober person. And some of the people I said, it was kind of just like, instead of a catching up period, it was like an exit interview. We're just kind of realizing that we weren't going to be part of each other's lives in any significant way anymore.

Well, I wrote about it in one essay where I describe a lot of those sort of attempts at reconnecting with people as a sober person. And some of the people I said, it was kind of just like, instead of a catching up period, it was like an exit interview. We're just kind of realizing that we weren't going to be part of each other's lives in any significant way anymore.

And those are the sort of things that, I mean, year after year, I tend to have those sort of relationships kind of fade away in some capacity. And a lot of it is just like absolutely nothing to do with whether or not I was drinking or sober or whatever. I mean, I think this is the important part of that I'm learning in...

And those are the sort of things that, I mean, year after year, I tend to have those sort of relationships kind of fade away in some capacity. And a lot of it is just like absolutely nothing to do with whether or not I was drinking or sober or whatever. I mean, I think this is the important part of that I'm learning in...

And those are the sort of things that, I mean, year after year, I tend to have those sort of relationships kind of fade away in some capacity. And a lot of it is just like absolutely nothing to do with whether or not I was drinking or sober or whatever. I mean, I think this is the important part of that I'm learning in...

in sobriety is that I have to remember that I'm a bad memory for a lot of people. Like that, like the interactions that I had had with them kind of left a mark that isn't great.

in sobriety is that I have to remember that I'm a bad memory for a lot of people. Like that, like the interactions that I had had with them kind of left a mark that isn't great.