RELATIONSHIPS
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
~ Ursula K. LeGuin ~
We all probably believe our recovery Program will give us new chances to form relationships. This maybe frightening to us because our experience with intimate friendships has been pretty rocky. They have been a source of much pain and misery for many of us. We have only to look around to see that for most people relationships are not easy.
When we work our Steps, we discover how much shame, guilt, pity, and anger we had for ourselves and our partners. We had invested enormous amounts of time, energy, and personal resources in those relationships. The Program has revealed a need to completely overhaul our attitudes about intimate and personal relations.
The Program has helped me be a better partner in a relationship. Most of the time I never really needed better partners. I just needed to be a better person.
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