Old 02-10-2015, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Duckygirl1 View Post
That fog of addiction zozo77 mentioned not only obscures the core of the A from us, but it obscures the A from life. They have no clear picture of themselves and have failed to grow as people.
Duckygirl said a mouthful here, as did zoso in his post. I've seen this same lack of growth, lack of maturity and lack of concern/understanding in my A in many instances, too. Here are a few threads about my struggle with this:

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...t-insight.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...t-knowing.html

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...ke-inside.html

I hope you find something useful in there. I'd also like to remind you of something I've seen posted here many times--"Unacceptable behavior is unacceptable behavior, drunk or sober." Sobriety doesn't fix all problems, altho we like to tell ourselves it will...
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