Tuesday
December 16, 2014
No problem so bad …
The next group meeting
was on a Monday. It had been a tough
weekend for most of the group. Darren,
Julie's husband, had filed for divorce on Friday. Michelle's husband was barely hanging onto
life in an ICU after a second heart attack. Tony's father got hit by an SUV
after stumbling out of a bar in Lawrenceville. Roger's youngest daughter had sent him a text
saying she no longer wanted to hear from him.
Seal's ex had started dating Seal's cousin.
"What do all of
you have in common?" I asked them.
"We all had
horrible weekends," Julie said between sobs.
"All of you can
get through this," I said.
"All of you have been clean and sober before. All of you have weathered storms. All of you are here today when you could be
out getting high. "
"And all of us
know that's easy for you to say," Roger said. He crossed his arms and glared at me.
"It is easy for me
to say you can get through this clean and sober," I said. "That doesn't make it any less
true."
Today I will remember just because something
is easily said, doesn't mean it isn't true.
Relapse Prevention Group © 2014 by Ken Montrose
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