Acceptance of others -a crucial element in relationships, seems to be beyond my grasp(👊)! 😔

Bill Wilson speaks of starting where we’re at in our recovery come accepting ourselves and our circumstances end constances and moving forward from there with a plan for life that works in rough going – After years and years of blame, humiliation, finger pointing and being shamed – I could not accept myself as I was. It was only when I began to change that acceptance of myself began to materialize. And since the people around me seem to have changed so little through the years….. The same people who hurt me as a child are the same people who exist in the world are around me today. I cannot seem to find it within me to accept them as they are. As badly as I long to be loved and have relationships which were absent all of my life -IT DOESN’T SEEM POSSIBLE

My Ana – the woman I ❤ mostly dearly, more than I have loved any other -and I cannot seem to overlook her testing, her prodding and poking of me! Nor can I seem to lay her fears to rest which compel her to act as such 😪