I found when I got sober every week felt like an eternity - not because time went slowly...just the opposite...I was doing so much rebuilding and turning my life around...
and noone noticed...because for them a week was just a week and any weekend now they feared I'd be the same drunken mess I'd been for 20 years.
It was a justified fear, and I had to bear it.
It takes time to rebuild trust and to re-earn respect and forgiveness...and we can't set the timetable.
It's entirely up to other people when they want to accept our change as the genuine change it is.
I know it's rough now Jeremy but the vast majority of people who I loved and cared for did acknowledge my change pretty quickly, now I look back on it.
Hang on there and keep the faith man
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