I am tired of character deffects. Tired of lugging them around like a recovery badge of honor. Can't I just be human? Human with faults, in acceptance of them. Not trying to remove them all. Not asking anyone or anyTHING to take them from me. Just saying, "Guess what? I'm not perfect, but I'm...

Have to go chair a meeting in 45 minutes and still don't know what the crap to talk about. I hate it when people ask me in advance and I have to think about for days before I do it. It always makes me lose my mind. I was thinking....relationships, perhaps? I mean, that's mostly what recovery is...

Just for today...I am not digging being the custodial parent. I am envious of the non-custodial parent's ability to spend fun time with his kids and then dump them off to let me do the real work. He gets to spend the bulk of his time living his life and playing with his girlfriend and can be a...