Friday, September 02, 2011

Gotta Little Martyr in ya?

We made mad love, Shadow love, Random love, And abandoned love... Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder
 -  Warren Zevon

Once while chatting with another AA, she was telling me that us AA's have a bit of Al-Anon in us. Meaning that we are also EXTREMELY capable of being enablers ourselves. I had never given it much thought. She was in fact, very right. We're good at going around putting ourselves in positions to get hurt, and then once we're hurt, might want to extract revenge. A really scheming conniving drunk might just do such a sick minded thing.

We also want to be problem fixers.  There might be those of us that get married or have relationships so that we can feel good about ourselves after we've "fixed" our mate.  Talk about a formula for disappointment.  But us humans DO these crazy things. 
I'll try and not "FIX" someone, and accept them how they are. 

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