The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
I have a few pounds to lose myself. I am the one who calls me fat. I need to stop the negative self talk. Join a gym and get mysef into better shape. I did good today on my vow to eat better. I love many people with alcoholism. I also love me. So I am going to do this for me!
I can relate to that way of seeing past the disease to the person. I lost 45 pounds in the last year and a half ... 20 to go. I know how I feel about my flaws, and can understand how he must feel a little more now. Thank you.
What a nice way to turn it around. Noone likes to be labeled. I certainly wouldn't want to be known as "his chubby little codependent wife". Yes, I do have "issues", but they do not define me. Rather I would like it that I am me, Michelle. Just me. I know my A does not like the label. See the person not the disease.
