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Hello "Family" Just wanted to share with all of you my excellent news: I am now employed at our local hospital in the medical records dept transcribing.
I'm not sure how this will effect my relationship with my sober ABF. He has had some difficulties in the past few weeks dealing with him not working and me being the "provider". I know and understand it's a "guy thing". We have talked about it, and I'm sure he'll talk to his sponsor about it, if he hasn't already. It's going to be a huge adjustment for him because he's never had someone take care of him financially. I told him that this would be a great opportunity for him to start his own business. Where we live there are retirement communities all around us and the people are not able to do house repairs themselves or don't want to and can afford to hire someone to do it for them or to paint. He has gained so much in this past year with confidence and knowledge. I am going to try and keep him on a positive wave with starting his business. He has expressed wanting to go back to school. I'm going to do my best to steer the conversation in those directions when he starts acting upset or being bothered by it. And will absolutely NOT flaunt or throw it in his face the money I make. THAT will be something that I will have to make sure I don't do. I will have to make a conscience effort to be considerate of his feelings that he and I have talked about.
Jennifer 