Men Talk October/November 2009 |
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A Man's Way through the Twelve Steps– © 2009 by Dan Griffin
Another time I was talking to a friend who has eighteen years of sobriety and was on his third marriage. His fundamentalist "preacher" father physically abused him when he was a child. He is a very successful and well-respected CEO. He was also on his third marriage and was ready to call it quits because of his struggles to connect in an authentic way with his wife and separate the pain from the unhealed wounds of his past from the inevitable hurt involved in an intimate relationship. At eighteen years of sobriety he began to look at how past trauma had impacted him and to apply the Twelve Steps to his life in a whole new way. |
What's Inside |
One night I was sitting with a young man who was sober for just over one year. He was struggling with a new relationship, fearing for his sobriety, trying to figure out if he wanted a relationship or just sex, and if he could do the latter and feel fulfilled. This young man had the ideas of what he was supposed to do, what he wanted to do, and what was most in alignment with his values and the struggle he was having was clearly intertwined with the conscious and unconscious script of masculinity that he was following. Copyright © 1976-2010, Twin Cities Men's Center
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