Recovery doesn’t happen in a vacuum. We need one another, and we need to be involved with the world around us in order to recover. Living clean is all about relationships—with ourselves, with our loved ones, with our fellow members, with society, and ultimately with our Higher Power. The people in our lives are the means by which we experience grace. We see the miracle of change in others, and they reflect our own changes back to us. They are windows through which we see the world, and vehicles by which we achieve spiritual progress. The truth is that most of us have not been very good at relationships. Some would say that an inability to form or maintain long-term relationships is one of the symptoms of addiction. The Basic Text tells us that the disease makes us “devious, frightened loners,” that we develop strange habits and lose our social graces. When we came into recovery, we didn’t always recognize what was wrong with the ways we related to people. Our experiences as using addicts shaped our habits and our expectations. Living Clean pg. 123-124
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