[caption id="attachment_3192" align="alignright" width="272" caption="Source: Bravo TV"][/caption]Sometimes the power of a bad example is as powerful as a good example. I’m thinking of Kim Richards, one of the housewives on The Housewives of Beverly Hills.
My daughter got me hooked on that show when she came home from college on winter break. There was a time – not too long ago – when that little intellectual dilettante in me would have dismissed such a show as a complete waste of time only to be watched by the mindless, vapid masses. Thankfully, I shut that little dilettante up and now I’m watching all the re-runs – thank you very much.
Watching Kim’s slow, self-destruction over this last season is good for me. I am, like Kim, am a single, somewhat middle-aged, mother whose child has grown up. We are both trying to keep our hair blonde and minimize our wrinkles. I am not going to pronounce Kim an alcoholic, but let’s just say there was a day – before I got sober 13 years ago – that I would have partied with Kim in a heartbeat.
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Janet
10:51 am on
January 25th, 2012As a recovering alcoholic in my 20th year I also naturally relate to Kim’s sick, twisted thinking. We are self-centered in the extreme, dishonest, grandiose and very sick people. After decades of work on myself it’s possible to see when the “ism” rears its ugly head and make a correction. Of all drugs alcohol is the most devastating because of all the wreckage we do and the hurt we cause others.
Thank you for this. I’m not a housewife or a single mom but I too can relate to Kim’s suffering and delusion and I can relate to enablers like Kyle too. At only 3 years sober, it’s hard for me to watch this kind of stuff on television. It’s still too close to home and holds a mirror up to my own crazy behavior from the past. But it also makes me grateful for the life I have now. Thanks for the great blog!
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