E247: Loving Your Enemies (Even When You Don’t Want To)

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Send us a text Sometimes forgiveness feels impossible, especially when you’re sure the other person doesn’t deserve it. In this episode, Matt and Steve dive into the messy, uncomfortable work of letting go of resentment and learning to “love on” the people who have wronged us. Inspired by CHiPs star Larry Wilcox’s story about forgiving Erik Estrada after years of bitterness, the guys talk about what forgiveness really means in recovery and how it connects to humility, prayer, and emotional so...

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0:25.3	All right.
0:25.7	Let's get into the show.
0:30.9	Welcome to the sober friends podcast.
0:33.7	We're here to help the newcomer, the sober curious,
0:41.4	and those already on the path to recovery.
0:42.6	My name's Matt Jay.
0:44.4	My co-host is Steve.
0:46.9	We're taping this on a Sunday morning.
0:49.2	You'll hear it starting on Tuesday.
0:55.8	And the Yankees last night lost a nail biter up to Toronto,
1:00.9	so I'm sure you have some forgiveness that you need to do to those dastardly Yankees.
1:04.3	Those could have losing by just this much.
1:07.2	Right.
1:08.2	Yeah, just by one run per inning they lost by. Yeah, I was out last night at a restaurant with the family and that had a TV up and I can't, I had no attention span. I just looked up and it just was run after run after run. I'm like, what is this?
1:29.6	I'm a diehard Yankee fan.
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