Alcoholics Anonymous

by Alcoholics Anonymous

It was not difficult to convince myself that my unhappiness was the fault of the man I had married,

The only way existence was possible was through rationalizing every sober moment and drinking myself into complete oblivion as often as I could.

as my resentment and self-pity grew, so did my alcoholic problem.

“There is just one good drunk in every alcoholic’s life, and that’s the one that brings us into A.A.,”

The A.A. members who sponsored me told me in the beginning that I would not only find a way to live without having a drink, but that I would find a way to live without wanting to drink,

“Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.”

“If you have a resentment you want to be free of, if you will pray for the person or the thing that you resent, you will be free. If you will ask in prayer for everything you want for yourself to be given to them, you will be free. Ask for their health, their prosperity, their happiness, and you will be free. Even when you don’t really want it for them and your prayers are only words and you don’t mean it, go ahead and do it anyway. Do it every day for two weeks, and you will find you have come to mean it and to want it for them, and you will realize that where you used to feel bitterness and resentment and hatred, you now feel compassionate understanding and love.”