Originally Posted by
irisgardens 
It was then that I realized I had to stop talking about my recovery, what I have learned, etc. as I have for the past 16 years as I have gotten better...
Yup. I don't talk about recovery with people who are not in recovery, because they are not going to get it. My sister (World's Biggest Codependent™), about whom I've eye-rolled before, is the only relative with whom I make any reference to Al-Anon, ACA, or any of that -- I've sent her a couple of books, and she has gone to a few meetings (but not gotten the concept that she's the WBC). Anyone else, I just don't mention it. What's the point? If they get it, there's no need to talk about it -- and if they don't, they're just going to deny that anyone, anywhere, has any kind of problem with anything, and that of course so-and-so drinks a gallon of vodka a day, but who doesn't?
It's sometimes a lonely path, but I just do my recovery program and shut up about it....
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