Image credit: Photo by Ape Lad on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "You know," joked my husband Mark, "I think you ought to be paying me royalties. You wouldn't have anything to write about without me..." "I know. It's true. That's the sad life of a codependent. My problem is being all wrapped up in [...]
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Laughter
Image credit: Photo by .sanden. on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "So at my meeting last night, I wanted to say that sex addicts are hot, but there were a few newcomers, and newcomers don't think that's so funny," I told my husband Mark as we were getting ready for bed. Mark laughed. He knows [...]
Spontaneity
Image credit: Photo by indoloony on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons A few months after I first met Mark in college, we ran into each other in a campus dining hall. As we chatted, he admired my high school class ring. I held my hand out to let him see it more closely, and peering [...]
Where the Wild Things Are Recovering Haikus
Next weekend is Mark's Sex Addicts Anonymous annual retreat. Every year I joke, "I could send prostitutes there and make a killing!" Every year he laughs and says "I'm off to sex camp." We kiss bye, smiling. Recovery and addiction may be no joke, but it helps to laugh.
In Codpendents We Trust
This weekend, my husband and I were working through a stressful situation in our extended family: "I need to give this up," Mark said, "I'm trusting in my higher power, and I need to remember that other people have higher powers they can trust in too." "Damn," I said, "you're right, but I always forget [...]
