Slippery Pete

Slippery: Evasive; shifty; deceitful; not reliable or trustworthy.

Relapse is not a part of recovery. That doesn't mean that some of us don't relapse. Such a nice word, relapse, don't you think? Slip is even nicer. It reminds me of a filmy lady's undergarment, or an amusing misstep on a patch of ice. Whoops, I slipped. Tee Hee!

Maybe we should call it Fall into Darkness, or Return to a Hellish Nightmare. Maybe we should say that we "put our hand back into the meat grinder." That sounds quite a bit harsher and a lot more accurate. It doesn't sound like too much fun. That doesn't sound like something that I want to do.

People that slip aren't doing something right. They may be saying the right things. They may be going through the motions. But they are probably not working the Twelve Steps. They probably aren't embracing a spiritual solution.