RE 67: Can Alcoholics Form True Relationships?
Recovery Elevator
Paul
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Buddy, with 7 years of sobriety, bounced in an out of AA for from 2002-2008 before something finally stuck and ironically, he explains how drinking actually saved his life.
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I read the following line out of an AA Grapevine, August 2013 issue, while on a tumultuous ride over a high altitude Andean pass in Chile. It didn't help that I was only 2 days sober (relapsed shortly after reading that line and ended up vomiting on myself and the bus) and I thought a relationship would solve my problems.
Page 53 in the 12&12:
The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being.
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| 0:00.0 | Recovery elevator episode 67. |
| 0:03.0 | It's like the Japanese say you have a drink, the drink has a drink, then the drink has you. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Recovery Elevator podcast. My name is Paul. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:15.0 | According to the Recovery Elevator Subriety Tracker on my phone, I've been sober for one week shy of 21 months. |
| 0:21.0 | On today's podcast, we've got Buddy. He's been sober since |
| 0:25.2 | November 10th 2008. He was in and out of AA since 2002 before something finally stuck. |
| 0:33.0 | Ironically, Buddy talks about how alcohol actually saved his life. |
| 0:37.0 | It's a great interview. |
| 0:39.0 | If you'd like to support the Recovery Elevator Podcast, Do so by shopping at Amazon. |
| 0:43.7 | Go to Recovery Elevator.com forward slash Amazon. Make all your purchases through that |
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| 0:52.1 | The topic of today's |
| 0:53.3 | podcast is can alcoholics form true relationships? It was April 2004 I was on |
| 1:00.0 | high-altitude pass in the Andes probably with one or two days of sobriety under my belt. |
| 1:06.5 | Reading The Grapevine, that's an AA publication, it's like a Reader's Digest type size, it's a quick read, |
| 1:12.4 | and there's a lot of cool stuff in there. |
| 1:13.6 | However, I read a line that definitely stung to read. At that time, I was still looking for |
| 1:19.9 | quick fixes. I thought that if I got into a relationship with a girl my problems |
| 1:24.3 | would be solved. But I read this line which is out of page 53 in the 12 by 12. |
| 1:29.6 | The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. |
| 1:36.8 | Reading that line was like a punch in a gut. I put down the grapevine, looked out the window, |
| 1:41.7 | then asked the bus driver, |
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