Growing Pains

[oablessings]

I am feeling a bit weepy and sentimental today. Joel is Boulder and I am here in Englewood. I miss him. Not because he isn't here today- but because since I have been abstinent (70 days today and down 41 lbs.) we spend less time together. I go to my meetings, I eat my healthy meals and he separates himself from me quite a bit. It is a learning

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Congrats on your abstinence

[specsafety]

I felt the same way about my wife, as I recovered, she got worse. My sponsor told me somthing interesting though, he said "my wife was attracted to a very sick person, as you get well, that quality she was intially attracted to is being threatened" Well good luck with your program. I thought it was interesting that you have a man sponsor. I once tried to sponsor a woman, and even though she was in her 60s(I am in my 40s)my sponsor said I had to drop her because of the 13th step issue--I said I wasn't even thinking along those lines, he said it doesnt matter. Take care, Len

Re: Congrats on your abstinence

[oablessings]

What is the 13th Step? And my sponsor lives in Massachusetts, I live in Colorado. I met him at a retreat he and his lovely wife facilitated for us here in Colorado.