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    Middle Class White Suburb: Life: Transition
    Middle Class White Suburb: Life: Transition
    Middle Class White Suburb: Life: Transition
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    Middle Class White Suburb: Life: Transition

    By Christopher Riesling

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    This is the first in a series of Ebooks which explore life as it exists in Middle Class White Suburbs across the United States. We will start in the middle of the author’s life with “Transition” which follows him as he journalizes his life for roughly two and a half years leading up to his 29th birthday. A period which begins shortly after the break up with the mother of his one and two year old children. Much of his life, for almost a decade at this point, is controlled by drinking, gambling, drugs, and irresponsible sexual behavior. Two months into this period he seeks and finds help to quit gambling. Over the next year he does not gamble at all and takes multi-week breaks from drinking only to return again with unfortunate results. One year after quitting gambling the other shoe drops and he seeks and finds help for drinking. This story will end after one year of abstinence from both drinking and gambling. Not surprisingly the drug use and unhealthy sexual behavior are also not part of this last year.
    There are some minor footnotes along the way, however you are mostly dealing with raw journal entries and your opinions on them. I will jump back in at the end with some of my thoughts on this time period. I hope that this will prove informative reading for any male in his 20’s struggling with these kinds of problems. God knows there are enough of them out there. I suspect this will be especially interesting to those who love young men with these kinds of issues, particularly the poor parents.
    I am submitting this version for free and all I ask is for feedback after reading.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristopher Riesling
    Release dateFeb 9, 2014
    ISBN9781311855251
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      Middle Class White Suburb - Christopher Riesling

      Middle Class White Suburb

      Life: Transition

      By: Christopher Riesling

      Copyright 2014 Christopher Riesling

      Smashwords Edition

      2/06/11 (Sun) What is this?

      Good question, I honestly don’t know at this point. In the literal sense, this is a compilation of my journal entries unedited other than to remove other people’s names, and to *** out profanity. I have to admit towards the end of high school and in college I always talked about wanting to make a movie about my life, basically about the partying with friends and call it Middle Class White Suburb because I had often heard a stat back then that the highest percentage of drug users were not in poor urban communities, but rather in this book’s namesake. I felt and still feel like my story is nothing more than a microcosm of the society I grew up in. That said the story changed dramatically after the partying stopped and there appears to be a more important message which I am still struggling to find.

      This is the first in a series of Ebooks which explore life as it exists in Middle Class White Suburbs across the United States. We will start in the middle of the author’s life with Transition which follows the him as he journalizes his life for roughly two and a half years leading up to his 29th birthday. A period which begins shortly after the break up with the mother of his one and two year old children. Much of his life, for almost a decade at this point, is controlled by drinking, gambling, drugs, and irresponsible sexual behavior. Two months into this period he seeks and finds help to quit gambling. Over the next year he does not gamble at all and takes multi-week breaks from drinking only to return again with unfortunate results. One year after quitting gambling the other shoe drops and he seeks and finds help for drinking. This story will end after one year of abstinence from both drinking and gambling. Not surprisingly the drug use and unhealthy sexual behavior are also not part of this last year.

      There are some minor footnotes along the way, however you are mostly dealing with raw journal entries and your opinions on them. I will jump back in at the end with some of my thoughts on this time period. I hope that this will prove informative reading for any male in his 20’s struggling with these kinds of problems. God knows there are enough of them out there. I suspect this will be especially interesting to those who love young men with these kinds of issues, particularly the poor parents.

      I am submitting this version for free and all I ask is for feedback after reading.

      We will begin in late August 2003. I just moved back in with my parents in May. They were nothing but supportive during this process. This entry comes a couple weeks into dating the first girl since my kids’ mom.

      8-31-03 (Sun) Rock bottom?

      God I hope so. I woke up Thursday morning not fully aware of the impact of what had happened. Wednesday night we won the softball league championship – our work team that is. Afterward went out and had a few beers, which turned into getting absolutely s***-faced drunk. The couple of shots of Tequila at the end of the night were probably the last straw…at least one of them was out of our trophy which was in the shape of a baseball glove. While driving home around 12:30 I called the young woman I have been seeing, to

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