Shadow has a couple of bad days. She talked to her sponsor, Kitty Litter, and has agreed to continue the steps with her despite the fact Kitty Litter is skipping steps 6-8 with her. Kitty Litter has promised her that those steps will be covered in step 9. So after a couple of days of not willing to write her harm’s list of those people she had harmed, she sat down yesterday and started it. But then she had a falling out with her friend of eight years, and she was sad but saw it coming. Her friend kept telling her every day she was going to relapse because she had a pattern. She also told her she was a piece of shit. Plus, she had been trying to control her all the time to how she drove to how she talked. It hurt but Shadow was no longer going to be treated as less than.

It was a mutual breakup. Shadow was sad but she needs friends that treat her right. Telling Shadow she was going to relapse practically every day was not helpful to Shadow. It hurt…