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Old 11-11-2010, 07:28 AM
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Freedom1990
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Originally Posted by ebarash View Post
Finally, on a personal level, I keep remembering how great our relationship was, when we were both working a program.
AA has taught me to live in the moment, to see things as they are at this time, and act accordingly.

When I start living in the past, or fantasizing about a possible future, I am headed for trouble. I am not living in today.

I threw away 4 years of sobriety after engaging in a relationship I had no business being in. I rationalized it was okay because he was sober 2 years.

He relapsed, and I wasn't far behind.

It was not worth it.

I was lucky to make it back into recovery after 2 miserable months of binge drinking.

He never made it back, and 20 years later is still busy drinking himself to death.
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