I am still working on accepting the fact that I will never be able to make everyone happy, whole and well. It just isn't my job.
I can only please one person, I can only live up to my expectations, and I have to accept my limitations as well.
Living with the family disease of alcoholism, distorts my reality, I accept the fact I need a support group to help me sort out all the feelings that go with the disease. I need people in my life to help me accept only my responsibilities.
Today I believe we are all broken and being in a "we" program , means I am no longer in this alone.
Most of all I must accept the fact that I must live life on life's terms and not mine. Swimming with the current not against it. I know today that I need no longer put up with unacceptable behavior from those around me. Even with a knot in my stomach, I can live through a confrontation and accepting violence is never an option.