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***nandm*** · 03-17-2008, 11:45 AM

Thanks for the thread. Thank you for sharing your ESH on the subject of relapse.

My experience with helping others boils down to being able to maintain my boundaries to giving them a hand up as opposed to a hand out. I can not grant them sobriety but I can share my ESH with them; give them a hand up. Other than that I can not fix their problems, financially, marital, emotional, etc....I can not give them hand outs. The key to it all though for them is whether or not they are going to take the hand that is extended.

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*nandm* Life the gift of recovery! Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Home is where the heart is Posts: 6,580	Thanks for the thread. Thank you for sharing your ESH on the subject of relapse. My experience with helping others boils down to being able to maintain my boundaries to giving them a hand up as opposed to a hand out. I can not grant them sobriety but I can share my ESH with them; give them a hand up. Other than that I can not fix their problems, financially, marital, emotional, etc....I can not give them hand outs. The key to it all though for them is whether or not they are going to take the hand that is extended. __________________ NOTE: All BB quotes are from the 1st Edition of the Big Book Depression is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign of being too strong for too long.