EDIT/CORRECTION: THIS BOOK IS NOT ENTIRELY ABOUT HIS ALCOHOLISM... MOSTLY ABOUT AMERICAN POLITICS... HE TALKS ABOUT HIS RECOVERY FROM ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE IN THE BOOK, HOWEVER.... !
Jack Cafferty (CNN Commentator) has a new book out [IN WHICH HE DISCUSSES HIS] about his alcoholism. Click here for info.
Here's an excerpt, from the promo blurb:
Sounds, familiar, doesn't it? It does, to me...
Jack Cafferty (CNN Commentator) has a new book out [IN WHICH HE DISCUSSES HIS] about his alcoholism. Click here for info.
Here's an excerpt, from the promo blurb:
There was a relentless, unspoken tension between us caused by the chemical I was addicted to. Eventually, your personality splits apart; you're living a lie and a scary double life. It requires tremendous mental energy to stay in that game and keep living that lie, all the more so with two young kids in the house bearing witness to the worst of it. You know you're not fooling anyone, least of all your spouse. And as my ability to handle the booze diminished over time, I needed more of it, and it began to consume me. I just wanted to walk through my career and do the drinking; do the marriage and do the drinking; do the parenting and do the drinking. How many drinks do you have at dinner when you go out? Do you drink at home before you go out and have more drinks at dinner? What about after dinner?
It finally came crashing down on me when Leslie and Leigh were eight and four, respectively. The handwriting wasn't on the wall; it completely covered the wall -- and it said, Game over, Charlie. You pushed this to the extreme, and if you keep going, your life, your marriage, your health, your relationship with your kids, and your career are all going to disappear.
I was forty-five years old when I decided to turn my life around. I had watched my parents grow old with their addictions and die broke and alone.
I was at a fork in the road. For inspiration I drew on the courageous example of my uncle Jack, who went cold turkey the morning after a scary, booze-fueled incident nearly got him into some serious trouble.
It finally came crashing down on me when Leslie and Leigh were eight and four, respectively. The handwriting wasn't on the wall; it completely covered the wall -- and it said, Game over, Charlie. You pushed this to the extreme, and if you keep going, your life, your marriage, your health, your relationship with your kids, and your career are all going to disappear.
I was forty-five years old when I decided to turn my life around. I had watched my parents grow old with their addictions and die broke and alone.
I was at a fork in the road. For inspiration I drew on the courageous example of my uncle Jack, who went cold turkey the morning after a scary, booze-fueled incident nearly got him into some serious trouble.
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