Avoidance cuts both ways :)
Avoidance cuts both ways :)
"There is an old AA saying that: Alcoholics Anonymous doesn't open up the gates of heaven and let us in - it opens up the gates of hell and lets us out. When I got released from my alcoholic hell, what I found myself experiencing was life. The very thing I had been drinking to cope with!" - Robert Burney
I just read this & had to laugh. That's where I'm up to with co-dependence. I am 50 years old & have been clinging onto my co-dependent behaviour for the same reason the alcoholic clings to the bottle ... because without it, you have to face life! And may I assure you that the bottom I had to hit was just as low & desperate & painful as any alkie has hit. Some of us are die hards
To anyone younger than me reading this - the saying "Let go or be dragged" is so very true. Let go of it before it drags you through Hell & Highwater.
I just read this & had to laugh. That's where I'm up to with co-dependence. I am 50 years old & have been clinging onto my co-dependent behaviour for the same reason the alcoholic clings to the bottle ... because without it, you have to face life! And may I assure you that the bottom I had to hit was just as low & desperate & painful as any alkie has hit. Some of us are die hards
To anyone younger than me reading this - the saying "Let go or be dragged" is so very true. Let go of it before it drags you through Hell & Highwater.
Truer words were never spoken. Addiction is hell, whether it be addiction to a manufactured drug, or addiction to a drug addict. Addiction is addiction and it can destroy us if we allow it.
I'm glad you found your way outside the gates of hell. (((HUGS)))
I'm glad you found your way outside the gates of hell. (((HUGS)))
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