Originally Posted by
honeypig 
Always a big big problem for me. I wish I could say I was getting better at this, and maybe I am in a very small way, but I am always acting, speaking, doing too soon and so often it ends up being the wrong thing. Sometimes I can backtrack and remedy my mistake; other times I've got no way out or around...
If anyone can offer suggestions on how to get myself to wait, I'd be grateful. It's just such an ingrained habit that I don't even realize I'm doing it, I don't catch myself at it, until I've gone ahead and done it already.
On one of the Alanon YouTbe videos I was listening to the other day the speaker said that she avoided Codie temptations by reciting the serenity prayer once for each year of her recovery (something like 28!) before reacting. Maybe you could come up with some kind of technique to stall yourself in those moments.