As someone who gave up alcohol, I am sharing my experience, not recommending

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readMay 2, 2024

I just came across a story on Medium about different types of drinkers, written in a typical shaming tone, and it motivated me to write this post.

When I talk about sobriety, I like to give a bit of context. I was never addicted, but I did drink wine most nights for twenty years. I never drank hard liquor. I rarely got drunk. I usually had two or three glasses of wine each time. Often, I’d start with a beer before switching to wine.

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/