Beyond Eat, Pray, Love: Elizabeth Gilbert's Raw Truth About Addiction, Codependency & The Awakening That Saved Her Life
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I have always used people the way other people use substances. Handing over of the power. Of your own life force. to pour into somebody else is what I used to call love. Before I could even like check the words, the words came out, make it worse.
Like I said to God, like make it Worse. There are certain things that I can't do that other people could do. And I just know that now, and I hope I don't forget that. Addiction is giving up everything for one thing?
And recovery is giving up one thing for everything? Addicts secret lives are Dark. And the reason you hide your secret life is because if people knew it, it would destroy both your private and your public life.
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