Jennifer Vee had no childhood trauma, no money worries, a college education, a loving husband who she loved back. She had a career, three healthy kids, a house with acreage in a quaint New England town. So why- why? - why? did she also have such a terrible drinking problem?

Having gotten everything she thought she’d ever wanted Jenn assumed that her drinking would ebb away. It turned out that the very things that people held up as evidence that she was functioning - spouse, house, kids, career - were the biggest reasons she drank.

Just like millions of other women, Jenn found out that having it all also meant bearing the weight of it all. She found that things that were meant to be privileged helium-filled joys - planning a wedding, renovating a house, a husband obsessed with having sex with you - only added to the weight.

This whip smart, laugh-out-loud funny, unbelievably courageous memoir is about how the things that we’re told will save us, sometimes come to crush us. It’s about lifting the expectations placed on us, little by little, so we can rise above the need to drink... and finally feel free.