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I drank my first hard lemonade when I was 17 and continued drinking in college — and after. People knew me as a party girl, but in early 2022 I decided to get sober. Here's what I say when people ask ...

On one of the coldest nights in the endless month of February, my husband and I decided to take our two young sons — both freshly shorn at the barbershop and looking unusually presentable — out to our ...

A while ago, I would be that person: The one who was drinking to “celebrate” any and every occasion. Eventually, it turned into drinking with friends with no reason to celebrate because that was the ...

When my ex-partner moved out, among his parting words were: "You're amazing. You'll meet someone else in no time." But as anyone who's braved the world of dating apps will know, meeting someone you ...

A lot of people got divorced during the COVID-19 years, and a lot of people fell deep into their addictions. Being an overachiever of sorts, I did both. As the pandemic worked its way through the U.S.

A few years ago, I noticed that drinking alcohol had fallen out of favor with young people. I was annoyed. Yes, some people drank so much that they got fired and hit on random people and drove ...

From the time a boy at a party offered me my first sip of Jed's Hard Lemonade — because we were 17 and too broke for Mike's — I was hooked. Throughout college I pushed the limits when it came to ...