Originally Posted by
Mountainmanbob 
Getting tired of these defects of character !!
I'm not sure of what is going on ?
8 years without a drink and right when I was starting to think that some of these character defects I would never be free of, I think that there has been a period of spiritual growth here lately.
Sometimes it seems to take forever -- does it not ?
If I (we) were drinking today,
would we be seeing any real growth in ourselves ?
I'm thinking not much -- possibly none -- maybe going backwards ?
MB
Imo, character defects are human emotions which will always flair up time to time. What recovery has given me is the ability to better recognize such emotions as they heat up and hopefully before saying /doing something I regret.