The Sober Lush: Amanda Eyre Ward and Jardine Libaire on Sobriety and Friendship

So ultimately, it's a generous thing to do. I had a lot of negative judgment about, like everyone thought I was being dramatic by saying I needed to quit because I had not been like a flamboyant problem to anyone else. What do you say to that person that's out there feeling that way? I would say to the previous me at four o 'clock, who knew I wanted to quit but was basically deciding to pour that first glass of wine and then moderate it for the rest of the night, I would say: you think that the hard part is stopping, but you're in the hardest part now, and that the freedom from those thoughts, from that four o 'clock dilemma with yourself and letting yourself down, the freedom, is worth The First Few Months of just sucking it up and not drinking.