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The following vision is one workshop participant's effort. Note it not for the values--those are his values. Instead, focus on the depth and clarity that mark this as an effective, useful vision. When I read it, I can 'see' this man's identity. I can see how he intends to live his life...and I can see a life structure that is capable of sustaining meaning and fulfillment.

And if I can see it, I know that he can see it as well. Once such a clear vision is established, it becomes much easier to separate the addiction from that vision/identity.

One Man's Vision
Devotion is first. Devotion to myself through a relationship with God, who is in me. I donÂ’t know exactly what this means right now, but I think itÂ’s close to right.

Devotion to my wife and my family, but first to my wife. I choose to devote my life to her, to develop a level of depth and intimacy with her that knows no bounds. To build a family with her, a home (inside and out and the idea of home, too). To develop physical intimacy and knowledge of each her. To develop emotional intimacy and knowledge. To be vulnerable with her and provide space for her to be with me. To protect her and provide for her and support her and encourage her. To be unselfish with her (even in serving size ; ) To develop my own integrity in order to increase trust and the foundation of our relationship. To the pursuit of adventures together, through travel, building, growing, being active -- and some of these will be planned (long-term, even ; ) I will be devoted to giving her space -- both physical, as in a place to call hers, and emotional to pursue things outside of “us.Ââ€Â

What has happened to this post? It seems all scrambled up...

I'm new to this site, and very grateful it exists, and so happy that people are actively trying to heal themselves, and in so doing, we can all help each other, i think. anyway, the scramble comes from, if i am not mistaken, a glitch in coding whereby the programme puts in some kind of code instead of proper punctuation marks, such as apostrophes and quote marks. I think to put in the styles, you highlight the text and then follow the prompts at the top of a post. Works for underlines anyway. but i dont know about the others. notice i left out the apostrophe in the last sentence? seems like one practical solution, hopefully moderators have more input on this.

This is from the system crash we experienced. You will see these on some of the older posts where we have not edited them yet.

This seems like a essential post to the website - could you please fix it? Do you have decent backups of the website?

friendly greetings,

andy

It seems that this is how it should be!