You know 'thislittlelight' I have read this whole thread and I am starting to take
a bit of offense at your statements.
You may misunderstand the purpose of this sight. We do not come her to LECTURE
about addiction, we come here to SHARE our own EXPERIENCE, STRENGTH AND
HOPE in the hope that it might help someone else.
You are PREACHING to the choir here. Many of us are double winners, myself
included.
Please, share your ES&H and what you have done. I and I am sure others on
here, probably know as much if not more than you about addiction and co-
dependency, we have been living it, some of us for many years.
I will submit to you, that many of us (A's), myself included, and those I have
worked with all these years, told very interesting stories while practicing, they had
totally DISTORTED stories of what happened to them, about how bad
their parents were, how they were abused or raped or those terrible men/women
they were married to, etc and the TRUE REALITY did not appear until sometime in
recovery and 'working' on ourselves and clearing the wreckage of our
pasts.
So, after all these years, and yes I still sponsor in both AA and Alanon, I take
what a practicing or 'newbie' A tells me with some 'big grains of salt.'
J M H O
Love and hugs,