Too Smart
December 2025 | Sober Holidays & Remote Communities | Oldtimers

Too Smart

She was a social worker with a master’s degree in human behaviour. Why would she need AA?

I was a social worker, supervising juveniles on criminal probation. I was married, had three sons, was a churchgoer, and despite all that I could not drink like a lady. Since I had a master’s degree in human behavior, I knew that the solution to the drinking problem was therapy, except that therapy hadn’t worked for me.

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