HONESTY:

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We can be honest and direct about our boundaries in relationships.

Perhaps no area of our life reflects our uniqueness and individuality
in recovery more than our relationships.

We need to be able to be honest and direct. We can define our
relationships to people, and we can ask them to be honest and
direct about defining their vision of the relationship with us.

It is confusing to be in relationships and not know where we stand
– whether this is on the job, in a friendship, with family members,
or in love relationships.

We can set boundaries. If someone wants a more intense
relationship than we do, we can be clear and honest about what we
want, about our intended level of participation.

We can even define relationships with children, if those
relationships have gotten sticky and exceeded our parameters.

Relationships take a while to form, but at some point we can
reasonably expect a clear definition of what that relationship is and
what the boundaries of it are. If the definitions clash, we are free to
make a new decision based on the appropriate information about
what we need to do to take care of ourselves.

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