Our Family Clean and Sober House for Monday, February 3, 2003

He was questioning why we did it. He thought that we were doing it for ourselves. The truth is that having Sam and Julie live with us has been relatively easy and pleasant. The problem as we see it is that it is too easy to get comfortable and resist doing anything for oneself. We are allowing them... Sign in to see full entry.

Then I spoke with a friend of Julie's. He said that you have to follow the program otherwise you can't stay clean. I told him that we had given them to months to find a place to stay--which first meant treatment and then getting a job before they could come back. He said that he wanted to talk to... Sign in to see full entry.

For the past year it seems that the drug addicts in our house have made very little progress. They are not working, they have not followed through with treatment, they have gone to jail. We love them--they are good company most of the time. Sam is handy and has done a lot of work on the house. We... Sign in to see full entry.