Jessica (Caller)

Oh, just fine.

All right.

So I am 10 months sober after probably 13 years of struggling with alcohol, kind of using it to cope with my very stressful teaching job.

Okay.

definitely something that helps in the short term, that is for sure.

Yeah, so kind of through those 10 months, I think a lot of things have been coming up and I knew going into it that I was going to be feeling a lot more

emotion and everything.

I also, I'm a missionary kid as well and grew up, um, overseas.

That's why we drink.

Yeah.

In a very volatile country.

Um, so definitely have some stuff that happened as a kid.

Um,

But through everything, my husband has continued to drink and I've tried to have... I had to get to the point where I made that decision to stop for myself because he wasn't going to.

And he doesn't drink to the same extent that I did.

But it's also because it was such a negative thing in my life, it's made it really hard to see him continue on that path because...

I just, when I look at alcohol for me, it's something that completely stole my joy for so many years.

And so, you know, we've, I've tried to have conversations about kind of how it's, it's making me feel on the same side.

I also know that everyone's on their own journey and I'm trying not to project kind of my, my path onto his.

But yeah,