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Old Jan 28, 2012, 08:52 PM
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gg just keep doin' it a day at a time, one hour at a time, one minute at a time. AA sure worked for me.
as for your hubby imho from my own experience-now my ex-he/they don't want us to get well. if we get well, then they have no one to blame their own shortcomings on and they certainly want to avoid seeing themselves!
plus if we get well we won't be weakened more-self esteem-where we remain to be their human doormat!
i'm so glad you're focusing on your recovery. you will never ever regret sobriety.
Quote:
from the big book of AA, pgs. 83-84, "The Promises"
“If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.
Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us — sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.”
if you stay sober gigi tho it may be hard to believe these Promises now, they will come true! beyond anything you can imagine. i Promise you that-i'm 22 yrs. sober, happy, joyous and free!
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Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours..~Ayn Rand
Thanks for this!
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