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February 2012: The Cup of Life
Reprinted From Grapevine Magazine, February 2003
We have a saying in AA where I live: “Looking for a relationship in AA is like shopping for a new car in a wrecker’s yard!” Not only recovering alcoholics but all sorts of emotionally immature people can make impulsive blunders in the relationship area. But the price they pay for relationship folly usually does not include insanity and death! Hence AA’s caution not to start relationships in the first year of recovery that is urged upon newcomers.
Sure it’s hard having to “do life” guided by a higher set of principles than non-recovering folk can get by on—damn hard!... Login to read more
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