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Five months ago, after a four and a half year hiatus, I once again started attending a 12 Step group for partners of sex addicts. I had just finished working the Steps with an online group and my intention was to join the group and work [...]
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I have a secret. I have been grieving over my children since, at times, before they were even born. Now that's not the way it's supposed to be, is it? I'm a mama, and mamas are supposed to be joy and love and [...]
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When my daughter was about a year old -- not yet able to talk or to walk across a room without plopping on her bottom -- I was out grocery shopping with her. By the end of the (too long) trip, she was squirming in [...]
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When I first found out about my husband's sex addiction, a therapist suggested that I go to a grief support group. The suggestion felt so uncomfortable to me that I never did follow through on it. I thought, "How are these people [...]
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The women's restroom in the basement of the Student Union was everything I dreamed college would be. The first time I used it, taking a tour of campus before my freshman year, I fell in love. At a glance, there wasn't much to love: the [...]
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I had a really wonderful, productive day yesterday. I got the kids fed and clothed and to school on time. While they were in school, I:
did all the dishes
washed and dried a load of laundry
got some good writing work done
meditated
ate a healthy lunch
went through [...]
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A few years ago, a friend of mine got a divorce. About a year before the divorce, she took a one year work assignment that involved lots of travel. She and her husband would spend months apart, and the stress of separation caused fractures to appear in all the little weak [...]
And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.
...unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.
~Alcoholics Anonymous (The Big Book)
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I was thinking I'd take today off from blogging, but in my blog reading today, I came across something on acceptance that I'd like to share.
My husband's absolute favorite line from the AA Big Book is "acceptance is the answer to all my problems today." When he [...]
