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Emotional maturity is accepting the things you cannot change.
A true story about my life…..this is me now.
Disclaimer: Not one word of this is written by AI. This is my personal life shared with you in hopes to make human connections and inspire.
I have arrived at a place in my life where I fully accept people for who they are. Friends, family, everyone….. we learn and grow at different capacities. This is ok. I no longer get upset when people do not do things as I think they should. Or say things I wish they would say. Instead, I just accept them for who they are. It’s not something that happened overnight either, it has been a gradual awakening.
It happened over days, months and years. I don’t know when exactly it started either… Maybe it started December 14th 2019… the last day I drank alcohol. I feel like that’s when “the fog” lifted and I have really advanced in my own personal growth. I don’t write much about being sober because theres so much stigma attached to “sobriety”. No crazy event happened that made me stop. I just can’t communicate properly sometimes when I drink and I woke up the next day and asked my husband “Do you think I should stop drinking?” and he said “maybe”……. So I stopped. I never went to one meeting, I just made the decision that I didn’t want to be that version of myself anymore. My husband…
