"All I wanted to do was kill him."
"All I wanted to do was kill him."
"It is a bit much to ask a woman who has spent 30 years trying to hide her problem to get up here and tell all."
"It's alright."
"I am a sponge for other people's emotions."
"And elephants do what elephants do."
The Al-Anon spends half a life cleaning up after the elephant. Then the alcoholic comes into the rooms and laughs at the mess they made of "their" lives.
Detachment says in part,
"Elephants do what they do but not to poop on me...but I can love them right where they are..and I didn't have to fix him."
"I quit saying I was sorry so much because that is not my name."
"I was like a chameleon on a plaid skirt."
"Trying to keep an alcoholic sober is like trying to teach a pig to sing.
It doesn't work and it just annoys the pig."
"I know that into each life some rain must fall and, you know, I'm glad mine was spiked because it gave me Al-Anon and it gave me this Program and it gave me a way to live."
"When you learn to laugh at yourself you will never run out of material...and people don't have to pretend that I'm perfect."
"I was a desperate women on a relentless search for love and I searched for it in all the wrong places."