I cannot cure my own co-addiction, but I am determined to challenge my enabling behaviors. And that my friends, begins with Step One. I see the value in admitting I am powerless over others. And when I don’t work my 12-Step program, my life definitely becomes unmanageable.

Thanks to this new awareness, I movin’ on folks, I’m movin’ on.

And thank you, Lois W, wife of Bill W. and founder of Al-Anon for sharing your firsthand, hard-lived wisdom.

“Then I will make up to you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten . . .” Joel 2:25 NASB