So hard to see happy, recovered people
My AH died this past February from liver failure caused by cihrrosis, caused by alcoholism. I've been in AlAnon for a year, and yes, I am so grateful that it helped me (and us) find so much more peace in what ended up being our last months together. But sometimes it is so painful to listen to the recovery stories! My Al-Anon meeting was SO hard tonight. The speaker was a recovering AA and her AlAnon husband. It 's wonderful to see them feeling happy and healthy together. But he used a metaphor: you have to let go of the cocoon before it can become a butterfly. Yeah, I thought, but sometimes you let go of the cocoon and it just dies. Maybe I should have held onto it a little longer. Right now I'd give anything to have him back.
Thanks for listening...
Peggy D.