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I posted a similar thread on the friends and family board but i wanted to get input from an addicts/RA point of view.

My husband is addicted to opiates and he smokes pot like there is no tomorrow. Things have spiraled out of control to the point that my only choice left is an intervention with his family. I have already contacted an awesome rehab facility that will take him.

My question to you guys is..

1. Has anyone ever done an intervention on you and if so how did things go? Were you angry at your loved ones for interfering?
2. If you have had experiance in rehab, how long did you stay and was it helpful in your recovery?

I’m probably grasping at thin air here when I ask these things but I would just like to see opinions from someone who has lived my addicts hell.

One more day on my friends couch (ok, two) then I am OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!! And in my own place.

I talked to my landlord yesterday, got my electric all set up and ready to go, meeting the cable/internet person tomorrow to get my stuff hooked up and I’ll be in my very own place right across the street from my BIG recovery family!!!!

***SIGH*** I have waited and been so incredibly patient waiting to get this wrapped up and I’m almost there. I know I’ll be around here the next couple of days but hopefully on Saturday I can start a new thread titled something like "I’M HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I’ll have to remember that so I can post it, LOL!!!!

Anyway, I’m so glad I found this place too as I’ve been kind of stuck at my friends with out a bus and not being able to do what I’d like, but I am almost there. WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :Dance7::c026::MusBand:

any advice for what to do when you’re tired of yourself? i feel like i cant succeed with the simplist of things. i have been divorced for almost a year, seperated for about 2 yrs before that- i don’t feel like i have accomplished anything. i was trying to take care of my dad and ran out of money. i am in debt. my dog got into my tenant’s herb bed tonight while i was out, and a neighbor called to complain about my dog barking. i got burned by a friend whose car i bought and the very day i drove it, the clutch went completely and i had to get it towed/a new 800 clutch job. she isn’t returning my calls. i don’t have kids. i just feel like a waste. when i see my husband once or twice a year, he cries, so i never feel angry with him or tell him how i feel. i end up telling him not to worry, things are fine im fine, he shouldn’t feel guilty. but then later, i am left with anger and saddness and he seems happy with his life and girlfriend. i don’t begrudge him that. but it reminds me that i failed. his new girlfriend is like me, only she accomplishes things. things i only talk about. i don’t know why i don’t take more action. why don’t i write those articles i said i would, call those people, act like a normal person. sometimes i wish society eliminated people like me. i don’t want my sister or family to be sad, but sometimes i fantasize about getting in a car accident nd going instantly. i have had a new boyfriend for a year, but am realizing that, though i feel comfortable, i am not in love with him the way i was with my husband. if i were religious, i could join a convent. i wonder if the peace corp would take me. i just want to get out and call it quits to the life i was trying to have- homeowner and the dog. i failed and i want out. if i weren’t 37 i’d want to go to the nursing home and wait for some nurse to roll me out into the yard and ill drool till i stop breathing. have others felt this way? i have been up and down, mostly up, but somehow ive slpped down the past month to the point where i just want to be eliminated.

August 28

The light of exposure

The Fifth Step asks us to share our true nature with God, with ourselves, and with another human being. It doesn?t encourage us to tell everyone every little secret about ourselves. It doesn?t ask us to disclose to the whole world every shameful or frightening thought we?ve ever had. Step Five simply suggests that our secrets cause us more harm than good when we keep them completely to ourselves.

If we give in to our reluctance to reveal our true nature to even one human being, the secret side of our lives becomes more powerful. And when the secrets are in control, they drive a wedge between ourselves, our Higher Power, and the things we value most about our recovery.

When we share our secret selves in confidence with at least one human being?our sponsor, perhaps, or a close friend?this person usually doesn?t reject us. We disclose ourselves to someone else and are rewarded with their acceptance. When this happens, we realize that honest sharing is not life-threatening; the secrets have lost their power over us.

Just for today: I can disarm the secrets in my life by sharing them with one human being.

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