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January 2004

Adult Love

He confused love with need and denied his dependency

I am a thirty-eight year old AA member. I will soon be divorced, after seventeen years of what I thought was an okay marriage. It had its ups and downs, mostly down while I was actively drinking and heading for the bottom. My wife stood by me through all of that, until after I had admitted defeat and had somehow, with the helping hand of AA and my sponsor, not to mention an incredible treatment facility, acquired nearly three years of sobriety, one day at a time.

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