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Future-Proofing Boundaries

Future-Proofing Boundaries

Someone you kick out of your life might come back later to try and make amends. How do you prepare for that?

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Apr 15, 2021
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Being an active alcoholic meant that a lot of people wound up telling me to get out of their lives, to put it mildly. The process of getting sober involved a lot of amends-making directed at those people, and most of them were receptive and kind and welcomed my apologies.

Not all of them were so welcoming, as I’ve written before, which was a difficult s…

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