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Back to EpisodesA Listener Asked Me to Talk About Alcoholism and Recovery. Here's What I Actually Think.
Description
Someone sent in a message about struggling with alcoholism for most of their adult life, getting sober, and now trying to rebuild relationships with adult kids and grandkids who grew up watching the destruction. They wanted Robbie's thoughts. He gave them — honestly and without sugarcoating it, which is the only way he knows how.
Robbie is not an alcoholic and doesn't pretend to have that experience. But he's been a heavy drinker, has family members who struggle with it, and has a lot of real thoughts on recovery, trust, accountability, and what it actually takes to rebuild a relationship after you've spent years earning distrust. This one goes deeper than most.
Topics covered: Robbie's honest history with alcohol from college binge drinking to becoming an occasional drinker as a dad, his thoughts on alcoholism as a disease versus a choice, what the recovery process looks like from the outside for families who lived through it, the hardest truth for someone trying to rebuild trust — it's not about you, it's about them, and why extending the olive branch repeatedly without expectation is the only real path forward.
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