Author: Romeo
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:16 pm
For me, the key was forgiveness……..I had to learn how to forgive myself. Learning how to truly forgive yourself can be difficult, but once you do it you’ll feel a lot better.
Understanding that I was an addict and working to understand addiction helped me immensely in learning how to forgive myself.
I’m just gonna mention this last one, I’m not necessarily saying to do it, but I felt it was worth mentioning. I took my wife with me to a couple of my NA meetings where I was celebrating my one month or two month anniversary. Of course, during the meeting, people share about their recovery, they spoke of how we addicts act and you should have seen the look on my wife’s face! She was stunned that everyone in the room behaved exactly like I did, they said the things I said, they made the same mistakes I had made, yada, yada, yada. On the ride home from the meeting, my wife couldn’t stop commenting on how the other people were just like me. She finally understood that she had nothing to do with my behavior and it made her feel a whole hell of a lot better too.
