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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 501151" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Sig I hope and pray she is. When I saw her yesterday and we went to the AA meeting I was encouraged that she seems to be very level headed. She has a sponsor now and is working the steps. She stopped seeing this one guy because she said she wanted something more substantial than he was willing to give. That is huge because she is like your son with relationships, she will hang on and hang on even after it is clear that it is over. I think that's progress but I don't want her rushing into a relationship with someone else and right now she is interested in another guy in the program who I'm not sure I like from his fb. She reminds me they are all addicts and so they all have things in their past. I am very good now at not lecturing and just asking questions.</p><p></p><p>She did ask me to take her to the grocery store to get some ingredients to make some dinners and she pulled out several printed recipes from her purse that she was making, lemon chicken, chicken fahitas and something else. </p><p></p><p>I reminded her that it was almost a year ago when she moved out and in with the pothead and her decline really escalated and said I would be happy when the next anniversary would be when she entered the sober house and was really serious about getting sober. We taked about a friend of hers that had her one year last month and then relapsed on adderall and how she had to start over now and how several of the girls in the first sober house said they missed my cookie care packages so I am going to bake some cookies and send them over.</p><p></p><p>It became very clear to me tonight that these people stay sober with the help of other addicts. Before the meeting a young man came in and was talking to one of the directors of a men's sober house. He had just gotten out of jail the other day after three years and he said he is sober and doesn't even smoke cigarettes and worked out every day and feels great. The director asked where he was living and he said he needed a place and he told him to call him this morning and he would get him into a sober house. The young man was so grateful and said he needed that support. While he is just starting his recovery he looks like a young man who can really achieve it with help and support and that's what this program does. It made me so grateful that there are people out there who really do want to help.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 501151, member: 59"] Sig I hope and pray she is. When I saw her yesterday and we went to the AA meeting I was encouraged that she seems to be very level headed. She has a sponsor now and is working the steps. She stopped seeing this one guy because she said she wanted something more substantial than he was willing to give. That is huge because she is like your son with relationships, she will hang on and hang on even after it is clear that it is over. I think that's progress but I don't want her rushing into a relationship with someone else and right now she is interested in another guy in the program who I'm not sure I like from his fb. She reminds me they are all addicts and so they all have things in their past. I am very good now at not lecturing and just asking questions. She did ask me to take her to the grocery store to get some ingredients to make some dinners and she pulled out several printed recipes from her purse that she was making, lemon chicken, chicken fahitas and something else. I reminded her that it was almost a year ago when she moved out and in with the pothead and her decline really escalated and said I would be happy when the next anniversary would be when she entered the sober house and was really serious about getting sober. We taked about a friend of hers that had her one year last month and then relapsed on adderall and how she had to start over now and how several of the girls in the first sober house said they missed my cookie care packages so I am going to bake some cookies and send them over. It became very clear to me tonight that these people stay sober with the help of other addicts. Before the meeting a young man came in and was talking to one of the directors of a men's sober house. He had just gotten out of jail the other day after three years and he said he is sober and doesn't even smoke cigarettes and worked out every day and feels great. The director asked where he was living and he said he needed a place and he told him to call him this morning and he would get him into a sober house. The young man was so grateful and said he needed that support. While he is just starting his recovery he looks like a young man who can really achieve it with help and support and that's what this program does. It made me so grateful that there are people out there who really do want to help. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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