Thursday, September 4, 2014

Conditional Recovery





 

1998, AAWS, Inc., Living Sober, pages 61-62


From: "Steering clear of emotional entanglements" 

Another caution: Tying our sobriety to someone we are emotionally involved with proves flatly disastrous. "I'll stay sober if so-and-so does this or that" puts an unhealthy condition on our recovery. We have to stay sober for ourselves, no matter what other people do or fail to do.  
We should remember, too, that intense dislike also is an emotional entanglement, often a reversal of past love. We need to cool any overboard feeling, lest it flip us back into the drink. 


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