I meet with Charlie and Mike every Friday morning at Crossroads
Mall. We talk for awhile, read some
recovery literature, discuss and leave to begin our weekends. It is a great way for me to stay connected
with two sober men that know me really well.
Today we got so engaged in discussing alcoholism as an attachment
disorder/relationship problem we did not read.
That is the first in several years of meeting with Charlie that we did
not read. It was a great discussion.
It is painful to watch my friends in their serial frequent relapse
behavior. Greg had 44 days. Lea claimed a month. Then they used again. I discussed stepping away from such frequent
contact with Greg. Mike told a story of
a guy that brought a serial relapser to meetings for years—and then the
relapser got sober. I will continue to
be the best friend I can be to Charlie, Mike, Greg and Lea. They all like me. Some need me more than others.
I am grateful for my friends, my sobriety, and being able to be of
service to others. It helps put my
issues in a much more palatable perspective.
As Alice would say “I have a much classier set of problems today.”
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