“My life can be summed up in one sentence…
well, that didn’t go as planned”

HEYYY I’M SO HAPPY YOU ARE HERE!
I’ve been thinking about where to start, so I guess here is a good spot. My name is Kelly and I am 48 years old living the dream in suburban middle class central New Jersey.
I have two grown kids. My son is 22 and my daughter just turned 20. They are the joy of my life and the pains in my ass every day.
I have been sober a little over three years. Which means I got sober in the pandemic, after quarantine and the surprise ending to a relationship hurled me into full on alcoholism (where before I just dabbled in being a drunk). I’ve been unemployed for a year and a half. I’m in a hard financial place that I’ve never experienced before.
For the first time in over 25 years, I became single, sober, unemployed and broke.
The adjustment has not been pretty. I think the biggest hurdles are over, but you just never know when the toilets gonna overflow. I’ve made attempts at dating and results have been semi catastrophic. I may be still recovering… So I pushed the pause on that a while .
I have an awesome puppy named Callie Mae. She’s my little furry bundle of happiness and definitely my favorite kid.
My main coping mechanism is HUMOR! There is no point in any of this if we can’t laugh at it all. Plus, None of us are making it out alive anyway.
I hope you will read this and can relate or laugh or just comment and let me know I’m not alone in this!