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Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.

We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

A healthy relationship is built on unwavering trust.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.