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It really works!


For over a year, I have been begging and pleading, bargaining and reasoning with my alcoholic husband, trying ANYTHING to get him to stop drinking. I figured out how to detach with love last week. He drank all week, then stopped yesterday. He feels lousy today, shaky and dehydrated, but he's pushing through. Amazing how it really only took me a week of following the al anon principles to feel so much better and for him to wake up! Thank you thank you thank you!

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"Live in and for the day, each and every day, starting right now." Janet Geringer Woititz, Ed.D., "Marriage on the Rocks: Learning to Live with Yourself and an Alcoholic."


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Those are some MAJOR steps for both of you. Wishing you both well in your recoveries.

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The day I first let go my partner turned to AA I was trying to do gods work I was in the way.  HP can We carnt so lets get out the way and let him .

 

hugs tracy xxx



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That is wonderful news!   Alanon works if you work it one day at a time. 



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~*Service Worker*~

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Thanks for sharing that it does work when we work it, one day, one minute at a time ;) Living in the now is so much more fulfilling. Glad you are here to share the journey with :) I hope you have a great day!

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Let go and let God...Let it be... let it begin with me... 

 



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Yay!!  I relate from my own experience which came about as that when I got out of the way from between my alcoholic/addict and her HP things started to change.  When I let her feel her own pain without adding any of the pain I generated she didn't have anyone else to look at...herself and her higher power.   Learned how to love her without needing her to be anyone other than herself. 

Thanks for the ESH.   (((((hugs))))) smile



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