A Letter from an Alcoholic

[DJFyrewolf36]

As I like to say to people who need and hopefully WANT to get well: "You alone can do it - but you don't have to do it alone."

This is what kept me going (and keeps me going) through my addiction issues. Being an adict doesn't mean you don't realise it, or you're oblivious as to how it affects others...quite the oposite.
Sometimes the first step to recovery is knowing that you aren't alone.

[Daisy and Delilah]

Candace, I have a question. At the end, it says, "I hate myself, but I love you". I've always heard that a person has to love themselves in order to love someone else. If this is true, how can the above statement be valid? Do you believe what I've always heard to be true or the other way?

I have alcoholics in my life now and I've had others in the past. I really wonder if any of them love/d themselves or love/d me. I've never heard it said that way before. Just curious.