Avoidance cuts both ways :)

Old 11-08-2013, 10:29 PM
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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.
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Old 11-08-2013, 10:36 PM
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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)))
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Thanks Helen, I really cant say anymore than just Thanks.
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