Love

AROUND THE TABLES of AA, I discovered early that the need to possess was part of my lifestyle. To love meant to possess, I thought. If I "loved" someone, I had to have complete possession. If the "possessed" didn't bend, turn, kneel, or treat me with the precise amount of respect, love, adoration, or awe I expected, then, of course, they didn't appreciate to the proper degree exactly what I was or what I was doing for them.