One Day at a Time
FILLING THE VOID
“You can't have everything.
I’d thought marriage alone would heal all the hurts
I’d gathered up in my life. My husband, also the
product of a dysfunctional family, felt the same
way. We quickly learned that our love for each other
was not enough to our emptiness.
I was
used to using food to temporarily fill my inner-holes; he was used to
abusing another substance to
fill his. Neither worked well, and we
soon discovered that buying things we didn’t need would help to temporarily
fill some of our
hurts. Pretty soon we had a house that
was full of things we’d bought that had given only a
few moments of pleasure at best.
One of the benefits of program life is that I’ve
learned to fill the holes within me in ways that
really work. I want to make my life more simple and
less cluttered. Three years later, I’m still getting
rid of things we bought and never used again. But the
best part is we can go to the mall when we really do
need something and not feel the compulsion to buy
something we don’t need.
One day at a time...
~ Rhonda H.
Where
would you put it?”
Steven Wright.
I will use the lessons I've learned working
the
program to finally heal the hurts within me instead of
looking for material things to repair these inner-holes.
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