AA Thought for the Day

June 10, 2006

Compatible Relationships

It is only where "boy meets girl on AA campus,"
and love follows at first sight,
that difficulties may develop.
The prospective partners need to be solid AA's
and long enough acquainted
to know that their compatibility at spiritual, mental,
and emotional levels is a fact and not wishful thinking.
They need to be as sure as possible that no deep-lying
emotional handicap in either
will be likely to rise up under later pressures
to cripple them.

Reprinted from Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, Page 119, with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.


Thought to Ponder....

Consider how hard it is to change yourself
and you'll understand what little chance you have
in trying to change others.


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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