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Wife Mother Drunk is an intergenerational memoir recounting the author's harrowing struggle with alcoholism, tracing it back through her ancestry to the times of the pioneers when the seeds of trauma were first planted, long before they overtook her otherwise loving life.
After having her fourth and last baby, Emily Redondo found herself in rehab with a breast pump and a five-week-old at home. On the surface, she looked like every other suburban mom, replete with dance bags and mini van, but inside, she was in a harrowing dance with alcoholism, drinking from morning until night, stealing alcohol from liquor stores, and finding herself arrested for a DUI with a four-year-old in the backseat.
Wife Mother Drunk tells the story of Emily's decades-long battle against her disease while also confronting generations of inherited trauma and addiction. In this incredible book, Emily investigates those dusty-earth roots to understand how women process trauma, heartbreak, and centuries of putting their children before their own well-being. As Emily untangles the web of female addiction in her own family line, she uncovers all the ways her life has become the ultimate consequence of others' unhealed trauma.
This is a book like few others on addiction, in that Emily doesn't just wake up sober one day. After twenty institutions, Emily walks an awkward yet gentle road towards recovery, even as she is forced to face the consequences of her own trauma, through heartbreaking diagnoses and the long-term neurological damage caused by alcohol.
Wife Mother Drunk is a searing, heartbreaking portrait of a woman caught in the grips of addiction, but also a mother whose greatest hope is the love for her children. Chapter One: 1976 - 1990
Chapter Two: 1991 - 1992
Chapter Three: Fall 1993 - 1994
Chapter Four: 1994
Chapter Five: 1995
Chapter Six: 1997
Chapter Seven: 1999 - 2001
Chapter Eight: 2003 - 2004
Chapter Nine: 2004 - 2008
Chapter Ten: 2008 - March 2010
Chapter Eleven: 2010 - January 2011
Chapter Twelve: February 2011 - March 2011
Chapter Thirteen: March 2011 - April 2012
Chapter Fourteen: July 2012
Chapter Fifteen: Spring 2014
Chapter Sixteen: Spring 2014 Pt. II
Chapter Seventeen: Summer 2014
Chapter Eighteen: Summer 2016
Chapter Nineteen: 2018
Chapter Twenty: Finally
Acknowledgments
"It would be too simple to call Wife Mother Drunk a 'sobriety memoir.' That would only scratch the surface. This gem of a book is a candid, vivid, and lyrical expression of what it means to be human-how complicated, messy, and beautiful that can be-during a time when displays of humanity feel especially rare. I dare you not to feel seen as you read this book."
"In Wife Mother Drunk, Emily pulls back the curtain on all things that make us flawed and make us mothers. Wife Mother Drunk navigates the tightrope of a cord that connects us to our past and our future, the perils of a journey marked by undeniable love for our children and a search for ourselves."
After having her fourth and last baby, Emily Redondo found herself in rehab with a breast pump and a five-week-old at home. On the surface, she looked like every other suburban mom, replete with dance bags and mini van, but inside, she was in a harrowing dance with alcoholism, drinking from morning until night, stealing alcohol from liquor stores, and finding herself arrested for a DUI with a four-year-old in the backseat.
Wife Mother Drunk tells the story of Emily's decades-long battle against her disease while also confronting generations of inherited trauma and addiction. In this incredible book, Emily investigates those dusty-earth roots to understand how women process trauma, heartbreak, and centuries of putting their children before their own well-being. As Emily untangles the web of female addiction in her own family line, she uncovers all the ways her life has become the ultimate consequence of others' unhealed trauma.
This is a book like few others on addiction, in that Emily doesn't just wake up sober one day. After twenty institutions, Emily walks an awkward yet gentle road towards recovery, even as she is forced to face the consequences of her own trauma, through heartbreaking diagnoses and the long-term neurological damage caused by alcohol.
Wife Mother Drunk is a searing, heartbreaking portrait of a woman caught in the grips of addiction, but also a mother whose greatest hope is the love for her children. Chapter One: 1976 - 1990
Chapter Two: 1991 - 1992
Chapter Three: Fall 1993 - 1994
Chapter Four: 1994
Chapter Five: 1995
Chapter Six: 1997
Chapter Seven: 1999 - 2001
Chapter Eight: 2003 - 2004
Chapter Nine: 2004 - 2008
Chapter Ten: 2008 - March 2010
Chapter Eleven: 2010 - January 2011
Chapter Twelve: February 2011 - March 2011
Chapter Thirteen: March 2011 - April 2012
Chapter Fourteen: July 2012
Chapter Fifteen: Spring 2014
Chapter Sixteen: Spring 2014 Pt. II
Chapter Seventeen: Summer 2014
Chapter Eighteen: Summer 2016
Chapter Nineteen: 2018
Chapter Twenty: Finally
Acknowledgments
"It would be too simple to call Wife Mother Drunk a 'sobriety memoir.' That would only scratch the surface. This gem of a book is a candid, vivid, and lyrical expression of what it means to be human-how complicated, messy, and beautiful that can be-during a time when displays of humanity feel especially rare. I dare you not to feel seen as you read this book."
"In Wife Mother Drunk, Emily pulls back the curtain on all things that make us flawed and make us mothers. Wife Mother Drunk navigates the tightrope of a cord that connects us to our past and our future, the perils of a journey marked by undeniable love for our children and a search for ourselves."