Trying not to lie can be very hard work

Isolation is a kind of gravity, at least for an addict

12 step recovery communities have a lot of what-you-might-call sayings - fortune-cookie-sized chunks of language that get repeated a lot and tend to be a clear tell that someone’s spent time around sober people. These sayings are things like “one day at a time”, “it works if you work it”, “fake it ‘til you make it”, “we’re as sick as our secrets”, etc. …