Narcotics Anonymous

Just For Today - Daily Email Service

   March 14                                                     Relationships

     "Also, our inventories usually include material on relationships."

                                                            Basic Text, p. 29

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   What an understatement this is!   Especially in later recovery, entire
   inventories may focus on our relationships with others.   Our lives have
   been filled with relationships with lovers, friends, parents, coworkers,
   children, and others with whom we come in contact.   A look at these
   associations can tell us much about our essential character.

   Often our inventories catalog the resentments that arise from our
   day-to-day interactions with others.  We strive to look at our part in
   these frictions.    Are we placing unrealistic expectations on other
   people?  Do we impose our standards on others?  Are we sometimes downright
   intolerant?

   Often just the writing of our inventory will release some of the pressure
   that a troubled relationship can produce.   But we must also share this
   inventory with another human being.   That way, we get some needed
   perspective on our part in the problem and how we can work toward a
   solution.

   The inventory is  a tool that  allows us to  begin healing  our
   relationships.  We learn that today, with the help of an inventory, we can
   start to enjoy our relationships with others.

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   Just for today:  I will inventory the part I play in my relationships.   I
   will seek to play a richer, more responsible part in those relationships.