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Post Info TOPIC: Please pray for a rainy day in GA July 4th


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Please pray for a rainy day in GA July 4th


I so wanted to kill her Monday. I had to work 5pm to 10 pm. She knew we had to go make an arrangement to pay off the mobile home she was suppose to work off. I now solely have my name on the payments of paying for the mh & setup. total $1500. Her name is not on it. She half heartedly apologized for it not being there. Oh, she will pay towards it too she says. She refuses to work off the debt with the friend that purchased the mh for us. that friend chewed her out and called her a drunk several months ago. She was all nice over there then we got ready to leave a little after 4pm. It was only half an hour for me to get to work. but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO She had to take HER truck, she could not be without it for 5 hours. It is all my fault I have had 3 years to get my truck to the mechanic to get fixed. She was sober at least I think she was,  I told her all my money I have been earning has been going to DR visits or keeping HER truck on the road. did not matter though. 


Seems she forgot that my mom provided the credit card to purchase & install the last engine & transmission that went into the truck. Did she offer to repay her? NO she seems to have forgotten that. I feel like shit because we both put her in debt & she filed for bankruptcy in 05. does the A acknowledge it? NO money grows on trees or so she seems to think. We are missing $74 dollars from back in March but as always it is my fault we can not find it. If it was spent I must have done it. Why do I keep getting with people that are so perfect? Why the H@$% would they want to get with a mistake such as me? I hate this stupid game.


 So Last nite she does come and pick me up on time. I asked her to get on the other side so I could drive home. I knew she had probably been drinking. NOPE She refused to budge. She drove home. We hit the side of the white line a few times. I kept praying all the way home. 15 miles. We did make it. Of course she could not shut up till around midnite. She went on about what a bad person she was because she drank. Please send me a big can of that " shut the heck up". I had called earlier in the evening to make sure I could take her a day early to her housesitting job. They said it was ok. We have been friends for a couple of years with these people. So my A took 3 times to sink in that it was ok. What a migraine! I went to bed mad. I could have killed her just to get her to shut the H&%$ up!


I had an 8 am appt for an ultrasound to see if my spleen has gotten more enlarged. I woke up with the alarm clock around 6:30am, I thought I hit the snooze button. I woke up again at 8 am. I called the hospital and they said come on in. We feed most of the dogs and left. I had a 10 am appt with my shrink.  I finally lost it today. I broke down and cried on the phone in the hospital lobby. My A had gone to the truck to throw up. I have been stuffing down my feelings for so long. pretending it is a wonderful world. My shrink said it sounds like my A is a small child. Yeah, terrible twos for 40 something years. at last I can walk away from this adult child in public and not get arrested for being a bad parent. How can I not blame her for my being late today? I know I could have made it on time but she did not help.


I have gotten rid of her, my " A" till July 5 maybe 6th. We went to dinner with our friends. "A" kept saying how stupid she was the nite before. She has no way to get her fix while there. boo hooo. I will enjoy my peace & quiet. I have caller id so if she calls, I will think about answering.


the answering machine was full of messages of someone looking for dogs that we do not have. seems the A told someone about some dogs someone else has & our number was given out. I did call & tell her & she is like well just ignore all calls.


A neighbor told me my A tried to get her to steer my truck over to the mechanics at 8:30pm. My truck has no battery, no power also no lights without the battery. A was going to tow my truck to the mechanics place while I was working.  Pray that she will grow a brain too.


I am not too happy about the upcoming schedule at work. Seems everyone claims they had made plans a while ago for the 4th of July. There is a calendar that appts & time off or vacations are posted on. that day is blank. So I am getting stuck with working 8pm to 8am. I was scheduled to work 2pm to 8 pm now no one has that shift.  I am not looking at going out and having fun. My fear is my dogs. The idiots out here in the country in GA where fireworks are illegal have a party. Fireworks are usually shot off for several days. With the weather being so dry, we are in a drought at this time. One year we went looking for whom ever was shooting off the fireworks at midnite. they had done it for too many hours we were going crazy. We got next to a church an a grass fire was a blazing from the fireworks display that had been set and abandoned by the partiers we never found. We were able to put out the fire with a shovel. No one lived nearby and the building & woods could have burnt down. Another year we held a shaking 80lb rottie while the next door neighbor shot off bottle rockets into our dogs pen & into our yard. So again my fear, My dogs freak out during thunderstorms. We have had vet costs incured due to them turning on each other while afraid. We have 29 dogs only 8 are out doors. So please everyone pray for rain, lots of it in my neighborhood sans the lightening & thunder on the 4th of July. And pray my furbabies will be safe home alone. I will set up the stereo loud so as to drown out the fireworks. and pray there will be no fires as a result of others ignorance. 


 I have decided I am going to a f2f meeting Thursday lunch bunch hour after I get off work 8am Thursday. I have no business driving while tired but my angels will be working overtime watching over me.



-- Edited by hmrnrnmm at 09:30, 2006-06-28

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Brother, my heart goes out to you.  You are not the only one to become totally beside yourself with anger and resentment over the nonsense that is born of A'ism.


Part of the first step says... our lives had become unmanageable.  Getting to some meetings was a great thing for me when I was in that shape.  (wasn't that long ago)


They will lie... make everything that has ever bugged them your fault... spend every nickle and not look back.  You have to decide what you are going to do.  Go to a meeting, protect your money, make sure you can get where you need to be without her help.  These things you can do something about.  What she does... you can't control that.


That is the hardest thing for me to get though my thick skull.  Their actions and reactions don't make sense, and they won't without getting sober and getting a program to correct thier learned behaviors.


I hope this doesn't sound preachy, but this is what I keep running through my own mind as I see much the same behaviors from my AW.  I know them... but until I really take that information and do something about it... it just keeps happening.  When I get pissed about it, it is normally because I am angry that I can't stop it.  (Control it)  But I can't, and neither can any of us.


Take care of you, and try to enjoy your small vacation from the madness.



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Of course I am going to ask how did you end up with so many dogs? Just curious.


I was going to suggest getting some meds to calm them from the vet. But guessing that would cost ya a fortune.


Have you read,"Getting Them Sober?" I can promise volume one would help you so much. I have been looking all over for mine. I think I may have given it to someone....


I hope you get some peace. But I can sure understand your fear of the fireworks and  your home. Is there anyone you know who could stay there? Like a niece or nephew or something?


I sure would have some one stay there. Plus have a neighbor  you like keep an eye out?


sounds like your A is very sick. I had to learn to never depend on my A for anything, nothing. It sure made my life easier. I also made it so we had separate bedrooms. no way was I going to not having a place to relax. No way was I sleeping with a drunk. no thanks, the disease can sleep or gripe alone.


glad you posted.  hugs,debilyn



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hmrnrnmm,

I just wanted to give you a (((hug))) and wish you peace while she is gone.
I hope you make it to that meeting...or several :)

Christy

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You got me to thinking about how that kind of rage is in all of us and that we are just one thought away from falling into that cloud of anger.  I know because I was there yesterday with my ex a. 


You have alot on your plate right now, between home, work, relationships.  I know when I am facing all those situations I have to keep each one separate and not bundled together or my thinking becomes very clouded and distorted and then all I want to do is go back and place all my anger on the alcoholic.  Yet when I take a step back, I can see that many times I was very much a part of the decision making also.  Sometimes my decision was based on apeasing the a in my life in order to control them in one way or the other. Other times my decision only brought more chaos into my life instead of keeping it simple.  Anytime I stay focused on the problems instead of seeking the solution my world becomes quite upside down quickly.


I hope you can make your f2f meetings and find some piece of serenity to hold onto.


Will pray for that rainy day too.... droughts are not a pretty thing.


Cilla



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Re: Of course I am going to ask how did you end up with so many dogs? Just curious.



 


Unofficially, We have been rescuing homeless animals since 1994. we have had over 250+ come our way. We have 20 listed on www.petfinder.com for adoption. The last adoption we had was Sept 05, a 5 yro cat to a friend of ours. We are hopeful one day some of these will be adopted.  We have not taken in any animals since April 21,2005. A "friend" brought us 5 pups 6-8 weeks old from the dumpsters. We still to this day have all  5.


Everyone has been spayed & neutered, heartworm and / or feline leukemia tested negative, de wormed, vaccinated, rabies, & heartworm prevention, etc. We do sales on Saturdays to try & raise money to keep them healthy & cared for.


We have asked over & over again for the local animal shelters to take them, the 5 pups, or any of them from us. They are all full & refer us to have them put to sleep. So in the a little over the past year, we have lost 3 dogs & 1 cat to old age. Now we just carry water & pet food with us to put out for the animals dumped at the dumpsters.  



-- Edited by hmrnrnmm at 09:26, 2006-06-28

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I feel for you and everything you had to go through...the drive home...the throwing up...your dogs on the 4th.  I will pray that all will be safe on the 4th and for rain!  But only in your town cuz I want to see our downtown fireworks..lol!


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I will ask HP to send all of the rain I've been experiencing here in the NE Region to you hrmmmmmm in GA. I am turning into a mushroom up here.

(((((((((((((hugs))))))))))))))) for you,
yours in recovery,
Maria123

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hmr, prayers for you and everything you need.  My heart goes out to you.    Prayers too for your A.


Hope you focus on those f2f meetings, and keep coming back.


Your friend , PW



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