44 minFamily and relationships
Loving an addict turned out to be the best decision of her life
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I wanted to drink myself to death
DUIs, wrecked relationships, and no will left to live. Mike Shooty is coming up on four years sober.
Mike Shooty drank through DUIs, through relapse after relapse, and through the wreckage of most of the relationships that mattered to him. By the end he was not trying to get better, he was waiting to be finished.
He talks about the moment he finally surrendered in treatment, which is not the dramatic scene people expect, and about rebuilding a relationship with his daughter from nothing.
Honesty, community and being willing to ask are what he credits. He is nearly four years in and now works with people at the start of it.
