The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
My day has been trying with my A again this morning but I am handling it okay. He feels he is not the same as other A's and does not have the same behaviors or thinking patterns. I did not argue it with him or try to share my views about it at all. I l just left him on his pedestle and will be here when he falls off.
Just when I am "feeling" rather frustrated, but fakin it till I make it my good friend phones me. She wanted to know if I wanted to do something tonight and I jumped at the chance as I have locked myself up in my room for a week now reading and working my program pretty hard.
While looking at options she shares with me she has been scrapbooking for ten years and I never knew that!!! I have wanted to learn that for about a year now and she is going to show me tonight. It may not seem like a big deal but for me it is just the break I need and some much needed time for myself. I am just about to order pictures to take with me. Yipeee. Something new for me.
I can definitely see this being a new awesome hobby. Just had to share my excitement.
He feels he is not the same as other A's and does not have the same behaviors or thinking patterns.
Lol, they ALL think they're a special case, different from other A's.
Great way to work your program by doing something enjoyable for YOU!
__________________
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could... Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Emerson
That is great that you get to go do something for you. What's even better is that you get to learn something from a good friend that you have been wanting to learn for awhile. I find it very helpful to do something just for me just to get away, especially when AH is actively drinking. That helps me to get my mind off of AH and on to more important things, such as taking care of my wants and needs. Thanks for the great share. Have fun this evening.
__________________
Kimmy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yay!! Learn some good scrapbooking for me, too! :) I want to learn!!
Sounds like a really good, really healthy thing to do - good for you!
Oh and yes - everyone affected by alcoholism believes they are a different and special case. I believed that too before I got into Alanon. I didn't want to go to meetings because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to relate - because I was different, you see. For a long time, I looked for differences instead of similarities, and seized upon insignificant things to set me apart. At the core of it, though, my thoughts and feelings were a lot like pretty much everyone else's. The story may be slightly different, but the important things are not. No worries if he thinks he's different - that's just part of the process.
It went really well. I had so much fun and made some very meaningful pages to start my book. I absolutely love it and it is definitely my new hobby. I have been looking at sales to be able to get some supplies in the coming month.
