The Clear and Manageable Timetable for Relationship Recovery | Sober and Unashamed

If you put in the work and make the effort…if you are patient and compassionate…if you learn how to be a really good and empathetic listener — this is when you can expect to be finished with your post-alcoholism relationship recovery:

I bet that’s not the analysis you were expecting when you read the title of this article. Unexpected or not, it is accurate, and it delivers on the two promises in the title. Never is clear in that it is not ambiguous. There is no range of possible timing. And never is manageable in that if you know it will not end during your lifetime, you can be better prepared for that challenge you face, or you can opt out of your relationships if they’re not worth it to you.

If you want sunshine blown up your ass, turn to the recovery community on social media. If you can handle the truth, keep reading.

I yelled at my daughter. She had kept something from me for months, and she ran out of wiggle room to keep her little secret. And when I say little, I mean it. It wasn’t a big deal. But it was something I asked her about three or four times in the first two weeks of her winter break from college. Each time, she shrugged me off and told me she would get to it soon. So when she finally came clean, and told me of her dilemma, I was hurt…