HONESTY:

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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