I was sharing my man troubles with one of my AA friends and she gave me something I found funny and wanted to share.  If you don't think it is funny I apologize.    

12 Steps of Active Addiction

1.  We admitted we were powerless over nothing---that we could manage our lives perfectly and those of anyone else who would allow us.

2.  Came to believe there was no power greater than our-selves and the rest of the world was insane.

3.  Made a decision to have our loved ones and friends turn their will and lives over to our care even though they couldn't understand US at all.

4.  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of everyone else's wrongs.

5.  Admitted to the world at large the exact naure of everyone else's wrongs.
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6.  Were entirely ready to make Others straighten up and do right.

7.  Demanded others to either "shape up or ship out."

8.  Made a list of all persons who had harmed us and became willing to go to any lengths to get even with them all.

9.  Got direct revenge on such people wherever possible except when to do so would cost us our own lives or at the very least a jail sentence.

10.  Continued to take the inventory of others when they were wrong promptly and repeatedly told them about it.

11.  Sought through bitching and nagging to improve our relations with others as we couldn't understand them at all, asking only that they knuckle under and do things our way.

12.  Having had a complete physical, emotional and spiritual breakdown as the result of these steps, we tried to blame it on others and to get sympathy and pity in all our affairs.

(Chairperson continues) THESE STEPS DESCRIBE THE PRACTICING ALCOHOLIC. CAN ANY ONE IDENTIFY WITH THESE?  DO THESE STEPS SOUND FAMILIAR??  PERHAPS THESE 12 STEPS OF INSANITY ARE SO ACCURATE YOUR COULD ADD YOUR NAME TO EACH AND EVERY ONE????


My friend made me laugh when she showed me this and I needed that.  Then she said "You did the right thing by telling that man the truth.  The steps above describe how you once were Kate.  You should feel good about the person you have become and if he is too blind to see how great you are that is his loss."