The loneliness of being sort-of sober

I am sober* - so where do I belong?

I remember getting up at 4am on September 12, 2021, feeling shitty and stupid and so disappointed in myself because there I was, once again hungover.

I had been trying to moderate and eliminate my drinking for literal years. Ever since I read Ruby Warrington’s book Sober Curious and it set me down a path I found endlessly frustrating (my fault, not the author’s). I wo…