AA Thought for the Day

December 29, 2006

Entanglements

Tying our sobriety
to someone we are emotionally involved with
proves flatly disastrous.
"I'll stay sober if so-and-so does this or that"
puts an unhealthy condition on our recovery.
We have to stay sober for ourselves,
no matter what other people do or fail to do.
We should remember, too, that intense dislike
also is an emotional entanglement,
often a reversal of past love.
We need to cool any overboard feeling,
lest it flip us back into the drink.

Reprinted from Living Sober, Page 33, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

I am worth staying sober for.


Recovery Related Acronym

Coffee Pot

R E L A T I O N S H I P = Really Exciting Love Affair Turns Into Outrageous Nightmare; Sobriety Hangs In Peril.


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