Author: hatmaker510
Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:57 am
My cuz is still doing great. Hasn’t used heroin since I last reported. Still living on her own in her 1-bed rented house and at the same job continuing to do well. Living her life and relying on herself. No more enabling from me – or for that matter, she doesn’t even need help from me anymore. I’m thrilled with the way things have turned out. And I admit some of it was just pure luck, because I really crossed the line with the enabling and it blew up twice before things finally worked out. But she and I both learned a lot and are closer now because of it. And our relationship has more balance in it and is so much healthier.
I’ve said it before, I don’t post about myself very much here. I don’t know why, it’s just me I guess. I’m a "rescuer" by nature so I’m more comfortable playing that role than the "rescue-ee". (Which is why it was so important for me to learn how to stop enabling.) But when I shared this with you all, it gave me perspective and helped just by being able to talk about it. And it helped by having other people to be able to talk it out with. That’s always a good thing, in my book. One point of view is always a limited view.
Anyway, thanks. 
