Too Much Iced Tea? –
August 3, 2019 – Alcohol helped me appear cool, calm and collected when in reality I was a fragile extrovert who gave off the unmistakable air of desperation, neatly covered by Davidoff Cool Water. Somewhere along the way however, it had stopped being my anaesthetic and had started turning me into a social hand grenade, and nearly meant I lost the girl who was the ray of sunshine my life had been looking for. On 4 September 2017, I finally saw the damage I was doing. It’s awful when you realise your repeated actions are extinguishing the flame of someone who burns so brightly. So awful, in fact, that I decided to stop drinking. And whilst our relationship ended last year, I’m still making good on that decision. 22 months and counting. It took me a year to get to a place where I felt ready to date, adamant this time round I wasn’t going to use it as a crux for my self-esteem … plus, I’d run out of Cool Water. Dating sober therefore has been an entirely different experience.
