Bill Says: (A Blog About Recovery)
Some thoughts about recovery. * Take what you like and leave the rest.
Saturday, July 26, 2014
DIFFICULT PEOPLE:
Few things can make us feel crazier than
expecting something from someone who has
nothing to give. We may have spent years
negotiating with reality concerning particular
people from our past and our present. We may
have spent years trying to get someone to love
us in a certain way, when that person cannot or
will not.
It is time to let it go. That doesn't mean we can't
love that person anymore. It means that we will
feel the immense relief that comes when we stop
denying reality and begin accepting. We release
that person to be who he or she actually is.
We learn to love and care differently in a way
that takes reality into account.
We enter into a relationship with that person on
new terms – taking ourselves and our needs into
account. If a person is addicted to alcohol, other
drugs, misery, or other people, we let go of his
or her addiction; we take our hands off it. We
give his or her life back. And we, in the process,
are given our life and freedom in return.
We stop letting what we are not getting from
that person control us. We take responsibility for
our life. We go ahead with the process of loving
and taking care of ourselves.
We decide how we want to interact with that
person, taking reality and our own best interests
into account. We get angry, we feel hurt, but we
land in a place of forgiveness. We set him or her
free, and we become set free from bondage.
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