A Rambling Love Note To My Father After A Depressing Father's Day

Lipstick and Liberation · Jun 25, 2026 · 18m

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I recorded this as a catharsis. I felt so much pain on Father's Day this year like I could not have fathomed. It was my first totally sober Father's Day. And I am no heavy drinker or much of one at all. I get a drink when I go to restaurants and I usually will drink when I venerate my ancestors so three times a year with them and an occasional dinner drink. This past year my GLP1 has made alcohol just absolutely undesirable so for the first time I drank nothing while venerating my father and the pain was crippling. I was depressed most of the day in a way I had not been in a…