Acceptance

Today I heard something that helped me more than anything has in quite some time. I have been missing my addiction a lot lately and struggling with obsessive thoughts about my most recent qualifier. To put it mildly, these thoughts frustrate me because I have been working hard on my recovery and it has been so long since I last had contact with him.
Therefore, I was so appreciative to hear someone elaborate on the sentence "gone for good". The context of the conversation was this: accepting what has happened in our life and letting go of those who have left it. This person remarked on how people always question if someone is gone for good and she said "Of course it's for good, it's definitely not for bad". I am glad I was in the right frame of mind this evening to hear this because this message meant so much to me. All of these men, these past qualifiers, are gone from my life for good and not for bad. I will be keeping this idea in the back of my mind when I start to miss one.