I was in an ETA meeting where a chronic relapser was whining about relationship issues. Again. His merry-go-round went like this:
Sober up, get involved with at least one woman, break-up, drink, repeat. Sigh...
He refused to take suggestions. He refused to change his behavior. I got sick of listening to him whine. After the 46,786,583,685,092,315th time he brought it up for the discussion topic, I was out of tolerance. When it came my turn to speak, I snapped, "If you can't practice the ETA principles in all of your affairs, then quit having affairs!"
Have a good and sober day.
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Ha ha ha! SnS, I hope you don't mind if I borrow this (with attribution, of course)? You're a pistol!
ReplyDeleteI thought of you after I posted, wondering if you'd laugh when you read it. Go ahead and use it if you'd like. Thanks again for the heads up about Sns being in the top 100 recovery blogs.
ReplyDeleteThis literally made me snort in laughter. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteLOLed, too, BRB. And you're very welcome, SnS - I thoroughly enjoy your musings on recovery - your spot on the list is well deserved!
ReplyDeleteSounds like the person has no idea how to have a relationship. I think that so many of us don't have a clue until we do practice the principles. A good one.
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