I learned in recovery to accept reality and give up how *I* wanted another person to live. I traded in that old way of faulty thinking for a new way.
How do I want to live my own best life? How do I live at peace within myself?
Happiness is an inside job, not conditional on what another does.
Detachment takes surrender, work and practice. Change the things you can for you and NOONE else. Some choose to remain with the addict through active addiction and relapses. It's not for me. As Dolly
says I too like flying free.
Last edited by frankie_b; 04-05-2007 at 06:51 AM.