Humility Leads to Gratitude
Nov 25, 2024
Humility does not mean that our feelings of anger and hurt are not valid, but it helps us recognize that obsessing about them is not beneficial. When some of us came to the fellowship, we may have been filled with...
Read MoreFinding a Healthy Balance at Home
Sep 9, 2024
I wanted so much for our home to be a place of warmth, safety, and mutual support for our family. Instead, after returning to work full-time outside the home, I found myself feeling resentful toward my family members. I felt...
Read MoreBecoming Self-Supporting
Jun 24, 2024
We can apply Tradition Seven to our personal lives by reflecting on what it means to be self-supporting as individuals. As the S-Anon Problem states, “We chose friends and partners who could not or would not love and support us...
Read MoreAble to Meet My Own Needs
Apr 8, 2024
One way that I can be personally self-supporting is to stop my self-defeating behaviors. When I first came to S-Anon, I did not recognize that expecting my spouse to read my mind and take care of me was self-defeating. I...
Read MoreReclaiming Me
Jan 22, 2024
At the time I found out that my spouse was an active sexaholic, I was a new mom, jobless, and nearly devoid of my own identity. My only definition of myself revolved around my family. Having a spouse who was...
Read MoreBalance in Unity and Freedom
Oct 23, 2023
I have spent a great deal of time either being too focused on unity or acting with too much independence. My S-Anon problem manifested itself in both ways. In unbalanced unity, I abandoned myself for the benefit of another or...
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