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I Tried Dry February While Getting Back Into the Dating Scene and Here’s What I Learned
This is my third year embarking on a “dry” month — thirty consecutive days with no alcohol. The first time I tried it I only made it until Valentines day, which should have been a telling sign about the relationship I was in at the time, or my relationship to wine at the time, or maybe both.
The second time was years later when I was in one of those “should we or shouldn’t we?” phases near the end of a relationship. My boyfriend at the time had some questionable drinking habits, AKA Alcoholism, and after a particularly bad night, we decided to embark on Dry March together. We broke up seven days later, this time for good.
My sobriety helped me process the breakup and avoid resorting to booze to numb out. It also led me to really evaluate my own relationship with alcohol, and the relationship between booze and my romantic relationships.
This year, in my Dry February experiment, I had a week long smoking relapse, craved (and ate) a lot of sugar, had to process a broken heart cold turkey, and date sober.
Trading Addictions
It’s funny, even if you’re not an alcoholic, or “addicted” to booze, your brain still wants to find habits it can replace with your drinking habit, which wakes you up…
