tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159109.post9170833936448189906..comments2024-03-29T07:08:08.502-04:00Comments on Out of the Woods: How Much Together? How Much Apart?Dianehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14954106386693585991noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33159109.post-53870042196558171752012-07-02T23:41:35.111-04:002012-07-02T23:41:35.111-04:00I am so thrilled to find your blog. I found out ab...I am so thrilled to find your blog. I found out about it by clicking through links on the Renew facebook page...ended up on their website. I am a woman with long time recovery - 12 years clean with a minor skirmish with medication for two days after my mother's death in 2000 (it was her medication, and I took it rather than feel the loss). At that time, I was about to hit 11 years clean. So I like to say that I have 23 years of recovery - the last twelve clean. I'm excited to read through all of yours posts but just wanted to reach out and tell you - I am glad you are here. (I started a facebook page called She Recovers last year in order to create a community of women who could share what it is like to grow beyond our expectations of ourselves. <br /><br />On the topic of relationships - I met my husband in an NA convention in 1989. We've been through a lot: stepkids (as in, not the Brady Bunch experience); my return to school for 3 degrees (addict? me?);cancer (his stage 0 kidney, mine stage 3 colon); a death of a parent (my mom...did more than wreck my clean time, it broke my heart); a bad bout of my own workaholism; my getting laid off from that job (there is a god); and now, a new career that is as far from anything I have ever done as could be. But we've learned a lot about ourselves, and our marriage is strong. I love summer because he goes fishing most weekends and I get the house and yard to myself. Not that I don't love his company, because I do. But I have worked so hard to enjoy my own company more than anyone's and I have a few years to make up to myself.<br /><br />Well that's quite the babble. I told you I was excited to see your blog. Now...to get back to reading it.<br /><br />~Dawn~Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09277751616587900015noreply@blogger.com