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I am trying very hard to hang in there! It has been a rough road but I am still here. I have struggled with my sanity for almost 24 years & that happens to be how long since I went to my first meeting--one month to go. For all of you who haven't been with us long: there is hope! If I can make it this long & still be here & getting well, you all can. I feel more secure than I have been in years. Now that my AH is sober, I feel better but I still struggle in my own skin. It is definitely a day to day process--one day at a time. I can't guarantee it will get better right away, but it will get different. It just takes persistence & a lot of prayer. Even if you are not to the 11th step yet, "sought through prayer & meditation...", you will find when you are ready prayer will help. Even if the alcoholic is drinking or not, you can find serenity in the walls of Alanon & this site. I have fleeting times of serenity. I haven't quite got it down but I am a "work in progress." Kathleen
Good to read your share. I have been in alanon for almost a year. I am really struggling developing a life that doesn't include my A EXBF. I feel hopeless.
Aloha Hoot and Bella...Its good for me to stand within listening range of old timers and new comers and listen to how this program is worked by others. I know it does work cause this is how I have accepted I will live. I learned from early program and early sponsors that on the subject and practice of letting go completely or abandoning myself to God as I understand my God that struggling is optional. I no longer struggle like I use to. I might do a knee jerk every once and a while but that knew jerk always comes with a memory of what works often if not what works best. As the ending to our meetings reminds me always that we find that there is no situation to difficult to be bettered and no unhappiness to great to be lessened. Today I know that to be a truth with me and I continue to trust the program as suggested.
Keep coming back cause it works when you work it. (((((hugs))))