As a recovering alcoholic, I found watching Love Is Blind uncomfortable

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'I’ve had to watch the show very slowly, as I think binge-watching it would just make me want to binge drink.' RachelCDailey bravely writes about the effect that drinking on TV has on recovering alcoholics.

In the show, we see the would-be couples drinking when they’re in the blind date pods, where there appears to be a limitless bar of wine, beer and spirits. Even when they leave the pods and start going out IRL, their dates are punctuated by goblets of wine.

I got angry and said hurtful things to him, stupid comments about his habits or stuff that had happened previously, which I would never have done sober. I purposefully took things he said out of context, would scream and make a scene. The next day, our first as a married couple, my new husband told me what I already knew: I had to stop drinking. In our three year relationship he’d suggested I cut down or quit a few times after outbursts, but this time I knew it wasn’t a request.

Mark and Jessica’s constant arguments may be perceived as Jessica being ‘crazy’, but when you see how much wine she consumes, it’s no wonder she ends up blurting out that she finds Barnett attractive. It’s her anxieties and insecurities coming to the surface. I can’t imagine the pain of having my outbursts aired to the whole world. I felt so overwhelmingly sorry for them knowing that they’ll have to keep apologising to everyone they love.I’ve had to watch the show very slowly, as I think binge-watching it would just make me want to binge drink, along with the normal people on my screen just having a nice glass of wine.

 

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