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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 500116" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>So sad. I hope he can make the choice to do detox and rehab... can't be easy to know you are about to face a long time of really feeling so sick and awful though. Just really an awful disease.</p><p></p><p>a really good high school (well really we have known each other since elementary school) friend just contacted me thru FB. He just started recovery last summer. He is a principal in a school and has five kids, his wife is bipolar and had an affair and he is spilling so much after all this time I wonder about him too. Is that normal? To be so enthralled with all you are discovering to tell someone you have not talked to for a long time? Plus I think the internet makes it easier to just spill it because no one is sitting and reacting right in front of your face. Or is that itself a bipolar symptom? </p><p></p><p>He has actually called too and I dont mind listening . He is not flirting or anything and I have strong views of that sort of thing so my boundaries are good. I feel terrible for his wife and so does he though he is not blaming himself for her affair anymore. But he does see his part in the downfall of their marriage. I see his school posts and what he is accomplishing etc.. and wow, one would never know. He even took over for the superintendent when he had to go for a year. Just amazing how people do differently when they are using... he did that before treatment. </p><p></p><p>He said he was even at the point when he was having black outs. He has told his bosses and is maybe even overly honest... again, is that normal? he said his sponsor says he over shares, is that part of the process?? A mistake some make just because they are so excited and happy about their new journey (I might add he is very spiritual and religious, in fact his mom was my CCD teacher when we were in catholic school together.) so this is not new (the religious thing for him) and he has found that he has renewed his path that way.... his school is a catholic school too. I want to be supportive but am very careful about boundaries not due to us being different sexes as much as I dont want him to end up embarrassed that he over-shared.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 500116, member: 12886"] So sad. I hope he can make the choice to do detox and rehab... can't be easy to know you are about to face a long time of really feeling so sick and awful though. Just really an awful disease. a really good high school (well really we have known each other since elementary school) friend just contacted me thru FB. He just started recovery last summer. He is a principal in a school and has five kids, his wife is bipolar and had an affair and he is spilling so much after all this time I wonder about him too. Is that normal? To be so enthralled with all you are discovering to tell someone you have not talked to for a long time? Plus I think the internet makes it easier to just spill it because no one is sitting and reacting right in front of your face. Or is that itself a bipolar symptom? He has actually called too and I dont mind listening . He is not flirting or anything and I have strong views of that sort of thing so my boundaries are good. I feel terrible for his wife and so does he though he is not blaming himself for her affair anymore. But he does see his part in the downfall of their marriage. I see his school posts and what he is accomplishing etc.. and wow, one would never know. He even took over for the superintendent when he had to go for a year. Just amazing how people do differently when they are using... he did that before treatment. He said he was even at the point when he was having black outs. He has told his bosses and is maybe even overly honest... again, is that normal? he said his sponsor says he over shares, is that part of the process?? A mistake some make just because they are so excited and happy about their new journey (I might add he is very spiritual and religious, in fact his mom was my CCD teacher when we were in catholic school together.) so this is not new (the religious thing for him) and he has found that he has renewed his path that way.... his school is a catholic school too. I want to be supportive but am very careful about boundaries not due to us being different sexes as much as I dont want him to end up embarrassed that he over-shared. [/QUOTE]
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