Interesting experiment

I spent most of my life after graduating from college drinking one thing or another, beer or bourbon, or gin.  The syndrome really started in once I joined the Navy and was no longer doing any drugs.  It was nothing extraordinary most of the time but it definitely had something to do with the ending of two marriages and the endangering of the third.  Not just my drinking but both of us.  The stories are a bit of a yawn.  Same as everyone else.

But my "Third Mate" as she called herself on a t-shirt she made a while back started to develop a really bad personality shift when she would drink and it was not conducive to a happy relationship.  I told her so and really started tapering off myself.  Until I found that I also had a pretty bad personality shift and so started taking, or not taking as it were, my own medicine.  And I suggested she do the same.

In retrospect it does make me sad and makes me wonder as our marriage immediately improved.  I was more relaxed and happier as was she.  I sadly wonder about marriage one and two.  So at our tender age we're experimenting.  Neither of us have quit drinking.  We just don't.  

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