Originally Posted by Anna

Good for you for getting through your first week! I think many of us have hurt the people who love us and it's often really difficult to deal with those feelings in early recovery. For me, I wanted them to understand me and I wanted things to be fixed. Of course, it doesn't work that way. Words were no longer sufficient. I needed to show them through my actions that I was changing. And, that took a lot of patience on my part.