When people talk about sobriety, they often focus on the obvious losses first: alcohol, pills, cocaine, the nightly ritual, the numbing effect, the sense of escape. For many fathers, the hardest thing to give up is not the substance itself. It is the story they have been telling themselves about who they are, how much control they still have, and how well they have hidden the damage from the people they love. That is what makes getting sober so hard for dads.
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