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Funny analogy I just thought up about us and the A
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You know this is so weird, but I attached a pic on my very last post of Aisian cops trying to chase an ostrich down with their motorcycles.
Here is the pic again, but now as I think of it, it seems like that relates to an al-anon trying to MAKE the A get sober. Sheesh. God has a sense of humor, huh?
Stuff lik...
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I think my A is finally going to go to bed
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God! what a night! Having an A in a relationship is a rollercoaster ride to Hell and back. An endless rush of good and bad emotions that leaves us feeling like we have been run over by a dumptruck, catterpillar, then steamroller, with a fresh coating of hot tar.
I know that probably didn't make sense bu...
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Prayer for New Beginnings--from one of my inspirational prayer books
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The following prayer was not made up by me. It is from one of my inspirational books I choose to remain anonymous. It has many different kinds of prayers for different subjects and situations, and it helps me. I am only posting this in hopes that it might touch someone out there who is struggling too. And...
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What a difference a year makes.....
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First off I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I've been coming to this site for over a year now, and it has truly been a blessing, along with my faith in God. My son, who is now 20, struggled with drugs and alcohol. He signed himself into a traditional inpatient rehab. program f...
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ES&H
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Just a silly question what is ES&H ??????
Have been reading it loads here and still not worked it out!
Thank you xx
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I HAVE A QUESTION on other conference approved literature--
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Has anyone ever found it helpful to them in Al-anon to read the AA big Book?
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A new ME is needed for a NEW Year
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Family
i came online last night at 2a.m (irish time) when i was at my lowest. After a really crap and emotionally draining day thanks to my ex-boyf the "A".
after a short and brief few days of chatting and trying to reconcile our differances, he had done 2 mths intense rehab and counselling, he has sw...
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12 Step Weekend - Oberlin Ohio
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So sorry that I haven't been on lately. I just moved last month and between unpacking and having my thyroid do another dive on me, my mind has been scattered. Here are the details for the 12 Step Senerity Weekend.... my hope is to be there but am not sure if I'm will c...
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My best friend died in August.
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Not only is my husband an alcohlic but my best friend was as well. She was 36 and a very beautiful person inside and out. I mean stunning gorgeous. Not too many girls gave her the time of day because they were intimidated so I was her only girl friend. I was there in the beginning of her drinking and then we pa...
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Great Day :)
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Today was an awesome day. My Sober A, son and I went to a store in the city called The Guitar Center. The place was HUGE. Son has been there before but we hadn't. On the way over son is telling us that when he and his band members go they stay for hours playing different guitars. We all kind of went our differen...
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One Year of Growth
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Tomorrow, Jan. 1, is my 1 year anniversary here. Not sure if I will be able to be on here much, because hubby is home. But...last year at this time, I was alone, sick. He had left. Now he is here, and for today, we are happy. Alanon gave me a new life, and a new way to live.&nb...
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We Are Not Accidents
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As I share this, I consider my HP to be God; however, don't let that stop you. As in Step 3 - Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him, feel free to make your own substitutions.
You are who you are for a reason.
You're part of an intricate plan.
You're a p...
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think I finally got it
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I've been having a lot of trouble lately. My parents are both sick and my mother is dying. Every time something else happened to them and I got upset, my husband started drinking even more.
We almost missed making a nice Christmas for them. Missed our plane to go there to take husb...
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Thought for Today--Jan. 1
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Were there no God, we would be
in this glorious world with grateful
hearts and no one to thank.
Christina Rossetti
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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((((((((((Family))))))))))),
It's 8:45pm EST here. I am off to bed because I am way toooooo old to stay up to midnight!
Just wanted to wish you all:
A VERY, VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!
MAY IT BE FILLED WITH LOVE,
PEACE, SERENITY, HAPPINESS
AND LOTS OF GIGGLES!
Hope it's...
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Join me for New Years???
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If anyone is around tonight I will be on. I don't know how to work the chat room but I'll be here. Maybe we can IM or something. I don't care to be around a bunch of drunks for play russian roulette out in the traffic. So if you're around..........Let's ring in the New Year together!
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LOL [laugh out loud] and sharing it with you
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well,
we got through last night.
he went over to our daughter's house for the evening. about midnight i heard his vehicle coming up the drive. i really didn't expect him home, i did expect that sickening sweet smell of "one is one too many and a thousand is not enough". &n...
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a few random things...
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as i came across a few e-mails this morning... i decided to share them with you...
some made me laugh, others made me think....
i hope u like them.. the picture ones..are sooooo TRUE!
happy new year guys... love and hugs to all of you xxx rebecca
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hello...hoping for some of your thoughts
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Hi. I'm new, and I have been reading some of your posts and I feel like everyone here is very kind and supportive. My husband is an alcoholic, who functioned passably up until recently. We have struggled with various issues in our life: his father died 5 years ago of cancer, and I had serious health probl...
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Happy New Year!!!!!
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I want to wish all my roomies at MIP a Very Happy & Safe New Year. I have a really good feeling about this year. So many changes have taken place in the past month or so for me,positive changes.
My prayers are for all of you to he happy, peaceful, serene & hopeful.
I have made great friends in thi...
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Need some info
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hi. i need some place to talk. my husband relapsed with coke or crack (whatever it is), is this site only for alcoholic issues? would someone direct me? thank you.
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Still working step 1
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All,
I have been in program for 5 years. First with Overeaters Anonymous and a year
later with alanon. I realize I have never actually gotten step 1 when it comes
to an active a episode with my AH. I still get angry, then repeat to him how
angry I am, coupled...
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renah
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Feel empowered, feel happy
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Hi ala-pals,
Tonight, we had our "First Annual Christmas Survivor Party" or "Thank God You Can Choose Your Friends Party!"
Being with my family, particularly my father and his wife, and my step brother and his family has been especially hard this past year, especially at this Christmas season....
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My Husband
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I need help with the situation I am having with my husband. We planned to move into a new house, but for various reasons, we werent able to move. So, my husband became very angry, dissappointed, and verbally abusive. He blamed me for everything. My mother is arriving in two days and I haven...
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Sponsership for an old timer
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My name is Robert and I am an Alateen/Alanon old timer. My sponsor recently passed away and Im looking for someone with 30 or so years to help me and share in my spiritual jurney. I was taught to practice the 10th, 11th and 12th steps on a daily basis and continue to do that on a daily basis. My...
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NEW YEARS EVE THOUGHT
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Ring out the old, ring in the new.
Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
The year is going, let him go.
Ring out the false, ring in the true
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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wanting the holidays to be over
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I have started a new job, albeit a contract job, and am feeling the isolation I live in tremendously. I guess that is the issue of coming out of survival it hurts. Christmas with the A was horrendous. He didn't crash anything or smash anything but it was close. He let th...
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First timer: need help w/daughter!
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My first time on this site. Tomorrow we go to rehab to visit our daughter. She's 35, an RN, alcoholic and sex we're told.... i didn't realize! She's ending, i think, third marriage and involved with another guy, of course, wanting us to think he's awesome.... i don't know what to do or say! She has two kid...
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Witnessing and Gratitude
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I can make choices in my own life - in my actions, words, and even thoughts if I work at it. But when it comes to others, I am just a witness.
This not only applies to alcoholics, but to their families and friends - in and out of the Alanon rooms, who are suffering the consequences of the disease. I can't m...
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step two.....came to believe/ what you would not believe
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you would not believe what is going on here today.
i am glad i don't have kids around to see the idiocity of this behavior.
the other night i told my husband , "i am not going to act dumb anymore so you can feel smart."
well, today we were watching a true life program on TV about a plane crash. I sa...
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jewely
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frustrated and REALLY feeling angry
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Hello
This anger has been building for several days.
My soon-to-be ex A/cocaine-addicted husband was fired from his job back in September, around the same time I filed for divorce. He's still not working. Apparently, he fought his former employer and was able to get unemployment benefits just...
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artygirl
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How can I help my 12 year old son?
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Hey there guys!
As many of you know, I am pretty new to alanon ... I'm really liking what I'm reading, learning and gaining from all of you - thank you. However, I am not new to alcoholism - in fact I was born into it. Now, I'm married into it. This experience is all new to my 12 year old s...
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So this is how my day has went ...
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I was thinking I would write in my journal right about now ... but then I thought I would post what I would've written ... it may even prove to be much more therapeutic. It is my AH's 41st birthday today. I picked him up from work at 8am, as usual (I'm off for the holiday week - yahoo!)&nb...
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God sure speaks in mysterious ways.....
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Just now, tonight, at 11:46 p.m., I looked at the inspirational reading for December 29. Here is what it says, and if anyone has been keeping up with my posts, this is an eye-opener:
I will be having his sister pick him and his stuff up in the morning. And as my heart is breaking, here...
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To ALL: please help----needing a sponsor real bad--MAJOR LIFE CHANGE OCCURING AS I SPEAK
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Hello and happy Saturday morning (early--6:30am) to all
I have put things into action and my A's sister is due to come here and come pick him and his stuff up. I will push it. I am calling her as early as possible to give her a heads up that my A and I have talked about i...
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Breakthrorugh! (at the art museam, no less!)
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Today I finally ponied up and rode down town to the local art museam, where various pieces of Rembrant are on loan. Seeing that the museam will be open tomorrow, I realized, "Hey, I have to work today--why not come back tomorrow when I can take all the time I want in the exibits and not have to worry about it...
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Thats it...Im out. (HELP)
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Okay. im new here. It seems like a lot of people come her when they are out of options and just need a little help. well, add me to the list of those people cause im building a bridge an im over this crap. yeah, im a little pissed off. I feel totaly cheated. okay stop...rewi...
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I want to start
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I haven't done any steps or anything, I just feel so isolated I don't know what to do. My husband has been drinking for about a year now, but before that he hasn't drank in about 20 years, being an active member of AA/NA. I guess we wanted to be normal and drink a glass of wine like everyone else, but it soon be...
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RainyJamie
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Taking Meds is one of my issues!
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Dare I bring up this heat filled subject again?
The discussions on this in the past have put my mind to unrest. I realized this morning I have an "issue" with this subject. My insanity starts in the morning. Bright and early. Depending on how quick I get to my HP and an alanon...
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greta
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Drunk envy
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Something that I have seen a lot in myself, and can tell that others do it too, from posts here, is to envy the drunk.
"He gets to sit in the bar, while I have to blah blah" we say. He's out drinking, or passed out in front of the TV, while we raise the kids, keep the house, earn the living, be the adult. The l...
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Are the Games Beginning Again?
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I determined in September I could no longer live with my AH, active or not. When he returned from detox/rehab, I took the kids (7-1/2, nearly 6 and nearly 4 now) and left. I just can't trust him, and can't live with the insanity any longer. I filed for divorce, and we've put our...
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lmw
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Divorce party
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I'm simply looking for your opinions on this one.
A friend of mine in the program is getting a divorce from her husband the A after 20 years of marriage. They are both known well in the local programs.
Yesterday I received an email from her announcing a divorce party when she gets her final pap...
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Mobirdie
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Just too FUNNNY!!!
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I'm witnessing my 70 lb German Shephard play with a 1 1/2 lb Ferret!!!! I can't describe it but it is one of the most funny things I've ever seen... my shep is so gentle... but doesn't keep her from puttin her big paw on the ferrets tail and keeping her in one place... aww jeez
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CJ
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Celebrating New Year's Eve
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Just wanted to briefly talk about New Year's Eve - if any of your lives are like mine - before recovery I spent many a New Year's Eve miserable. Usually at a family party I didn't want to go to, watching people drink, play cards, etc. - just nothing enjoyable for me.
Thankfully today, I have a prog...
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Rita G
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Don't know if I can do this after all...
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Hi there everyone.
Some of you may remember my story from about 6 months ago, for those that don't it is the usual one. My partner started going to AA about 8 months ago after she was arrested in our own home and finally admitted to having a problem.
Being a guy I did the usual guy stuff....I stood by her...
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Mike5056
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Feeling my rage today...
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Where does this stuff come from? I've been fine all week and then this afternoon - wham! I met my A at the health club and we were talking about his son, he made a very innocent comment which made me stand my ground and stand up for myself. That wasn't bad. What was bad was t...
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twinkie
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I'M NOT AN ALCOHOLIC! WHATEVER!
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OH....OK....I guess I put a gun to your mother's head and FORCED her to go sign papers with me to get help for YOU...because you don't have a drinking problem! I guess I put a gun to your brother's head and FORCED him to stay on the phone ALL DAY looking for someway to get you help...because YOU don't have a d...
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Fifth Step
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I have havered at my fifth step for too long. I need someone to do my fifth step with now - as in, as soon as possible. If you are in the USA, and can be reached by phone or have an e-mail address or instant messenger I could communicate with you by, and would volunteer to hear my brief story, I des...
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LoriaR
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Another date night ...
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I went to my counselor the other day and he told me to be patient, live in the moment and not to be so hard on myself. To give my husband the time he wants to figure this out on his own.. Then I spoke to my husband that agreed that he needed "space" time to be alone to "fix" himself. Although it was hard to hear b...
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Tammy
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Thanks
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I really appreciate the replies I rec'd re: grandkids and DIL -. I have read over and over my books on communication etc---and I am soooooooo afraid to "say anything" to her--like I don't want to "rock the boat" But I already suffer with very high BP and I know this does not help. So I a...
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meagain
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Ashamed to be like a newcomer again..
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im posting here again lately and feel ashamed and angry at mysef for doing so. even though posting here is probably keeping me sane.
i allowed myself to fall into the same pattern of being the doormat where my ex "A" was concerned. after swearing to myself that i wuld not allow any other man to treat me t...
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Rebecca
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restless mind
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so i can't sleep either while my A boyfriend is away at rehab...i get up with my mind racing on negative codependant thoughts.....am i visiting too much(each weekend)?does he reallywant me to visit?i want time with him,not all his new addict friends?what about me?would he be driving 2 hours to see me...
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Fifi
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Addiction, adultry, and abuse-- an impediment to a functional marriage
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger talks about the three A's, any of which is an impediment to a functional marriage -- and those are adultery, addiction, and abuse. Well, guess what boys and girls-- I got to endure all 3 of them by my A husband. What a guy!!! How did I get so lucky? I firmly believe that...
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snoopy
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What do I do?
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How do I deal with my hubby? He's gone back to drinking again. I don't know what to do.
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Can anyone give me a little info
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I have a friend here in England who has never mastered the English language. Her first language is Cantonese. Second language Manderin.
She's really struggling here. As you will all know living with active alcoholism is isolating at the best of times but with a language barrier this is compounded...
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mon123
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a very gross story
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i grew up in an alcoholic home. denile was what our family was based on. my uncle was the drunk, died of the disease. he would be stinking drunk, falling down the stairs and my mother would look me right in the eye and say he wasn't drunk. so, when i grew up and married an alcoholic/crack addict and he said he...
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be careful what you ask for
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Be careful what you ask for, because when you find out you might just have to do something about it. I just wanted to know for sure and now I do.
A quick update... my AH and I reconciled 6 months ago after he had been clean and sober and working a program. Sometime this past fall that nagging feeling bega...
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confused
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Today I am a newcomer - humility...
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If I had to get a 24 hour coin for every time I relapsed, what a collection I would have. What a great reminder to me that sobriety is one day at a time, for me and my alcoholic husband. As I slip in my own recovery, why am I so obsessed with whether or not he is slipping in his? Why am I focusing on him and not on mys...
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confused
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IM TAKING TIME OUT OF CHATROOM
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((((((((((((((Guys))))))))))))))))))))
I'm finding It really hard just now with things In my life. I think I have hit a rock bottom the last few days. I am crying all the time, feeling sorry for Ally. So I think the best think I can do Is spend some time with just me. Try to work through some of...
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ally
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Cannot Sleep
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I took the chance to go see my orignal sponsor while my bf was here visiting at Xmas. My orignal sponsor was AA and went back to drinking. It was a sad sight to see him in such bad shape. This man who was my sponsor was once about a good 275 and now he is skin and bones. What w...
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