 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Eric if you call yourself an a@@hole then maybe you are in denial about your anger management issues ;-)
Some people are addicted to anger.
"Denial is NOT a river in Egypt"
Very nicely put Connie but remember that the Big Book doesn't refer to that as the "miracle of reconciliation" lightly (in the chapter on The Family Afterwards). You were blessed to have that miracle and also healthy boundaries.
Co-dependancy is it's own disease.
IMHO Davids chances of influencing this guy to turn himself around are under 10% (and that's being very generous/optomistic). I've just seen just too many failures - and that in AA. There are also CODA meetings out there.
Last edited by Gary; 03-24-2011 07:19 PM.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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