There's a story we tell ourselves in recovery. That the loneliness will go away once we build a new social circle. Once we find a sober community. Once we get back into dating, or back into the world, or back into our own life. So we wait for the outside to change. And sometimes it does — and ...

  Reading a book with one eye on the Grindr grid. Stopping in the middle of cleaning my house to take the perfectly angled Snapchat. Broadcasting my hookups via my personal Zoom room. Before my active meth use, I couldn't stand to be alone for more than an hour. If I couldn't have physical compa...