Jowita Bydlowska

Drunk Mom

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There are many alcoholic mothers. Only one has told her story.
Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. “It's a special occasion,” she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It was a party celebrating the birth of their first child. It also marked Jowita's immediate, full-blown return to alcoholism and all that entails for a new mother who is at first determined to keep her problem a secret.
Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts.
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    . I am the opposite of a ghost. My body is here but my spirit is gone
  • Isabella Ruizhas quoted2 years ago
    There’s an expression in AA, “to white-knuckle,” which means not drinking but not going to meetings either. It implies a struggle: clenching your fists so tightly as you’re trying to hang on to your sobriety that your bones shine through your skin
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    An intelligent person would remember that the soothing inner hug of the wanting being satisfied is brief
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