My Miracles

Outing Myself

Last weekend on the airplane heading to a sober women's meet up, after a lot of shuffling around, I got seated next to a man from a town not far from me. As I usually do, I put on my earphones to listen to my soothing take off music. He noticed that I was listening to Il Volo and started chatting me up in Italian. Which I don't speak. Anyway, we started talking and he turned out to be have a small winery at his house where he makes specialty wine for friends and loved ones. He asked me what my favorite wine was and I said it used to be Chardonnay but I don't drink anymore. I could tell he was fascinated by that answer by the look on his face. He asked me if it was for spiritual reasons or health…? I shocked myself and told him I didn't drink anymore because I had a drinking problem. No shut off. He was more fascinated and asked how that works. I explained that a "normie" could just have a glass of wine but I had to have a bottle (or two…).
He told me he and his wife share a bottle of wine every night and that was it. I said, well your a normie then. He was fascinated like he'd never heard of this concept before and asked me lots more questions. When he asked me where I was going and I almost spit out my (non-alcoholic) drink. I told him I was going on a girls' weekend. His eyebrows shot up and I clarified, a sober girls' weekend. I told him I was going to meet 30 sober women I had met on-line. He almost spit out his (non-alcoholis) drink. So I told him about how I googled if I was an alcoholic in 2010 and found Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's blog where she came out as an alcoholic, and talked about wine at play dates and driving drunk, etc. He said "I just saw something about that the other day" on the Today show! I said I was going to meet with members of the group she started. Uh huh! Truth. At the end of the flight he said he was really glad we chatted and I had certainly given him food for thought about drinking and sharing his wine responsibly. God (HP) shot or what?