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‘Telling Yourself the Truth–You Don’t Have to Tell Me–But At Least Tell it to Yourself…’
(Sandra L. Brown, M.A.)
“People, like all forms of life, only change when something so disturbs them that they are forced
to let go of their present beliefs. Nothing changes until we interpret things differently.
Change occurs only when we let go of our certainty. ” Dee Hock

Rigorous honesty is the first rule of recovery. Nothing happens until the truth is laid on the table. Well,
that ends alot of recoveries right there–the inability or even refusal to be honest, especially with yourself.
Telling yourself the truth means several difficult things:
1. It means you stop covering for him –making excuses for his behavior, quietyly and secretly LOOKING
for loopholes he just might fit into (he doesn’t met ALL the criteria for pathology, only 10 out of 12.
Psychology COULD be wrong in his case). Instead of looking with the eyes of safety and seeing how
many areas he DOES fit in, you scoure every square inch of your memory and his behavior looking for
ONE redeeming trait that is suppose to wipe out the 25 absolutely pathological things he does. You aren’t
telling yourself the truth about ‘him’ and his pathology OR your own loophole hunt and what your real motives
are–to find a reason to stay.
2. You tell yourself the truth about how you need to take responsibility for your choices and your recovery.
Telling yourself the truth about your own choices means you are willing to really dig in and look at where
your choices in relationships have their origins. You can’t change what you don’t see. While you are not
responsible for abuse you incurred, you are responsible for your own recovery and the safety of yourself
and children. This can only occur when you begin telling yourself the truth about the level of danger you are
in and the level of damage you and your children have already sustained. Taking responsibility for your
recovery means that you both acknowledge the victimization AND seek to thrive beyond the mere title
of ‘victim.’ I see so many women do part one: acknowledge the victimhood and don’t do part two.
They camp out in the victimhood and 10 years later, they are still in the same spot as they were before.
Recovery means movement and progress. We have to even tell ourselves the truth
about our own recovery—we kick our own butts if we are stagnate or have stopped growing. Some women
find their identities in their victimization because of the severe abuse and loss of self esteem. Years later
some of the women have never done anything for their own recovery. They read one book and saw them-
selves in it, recognized their victimhood, closed the book, squatted—and stayed there. You already lived
THAT—real life is out there on the other side of recovery (even IN recovery). Tell yourself the truth about
how invested you are in your recovery or what you need to really do in order to recover. If you’re afraid of
success—acknowledge that.
3. Telling yourself the truth also means taking responsibility for relapses. Sometimes women secretly
want to relapse. Have you had that feeling? They just want to go back to what feels ‘normal’ — which is
often dysfunction. It’s human nature to want what is comfortable even when it’s painful. That makes
recovery all the more difficult because when you are tired, lonely, and sick of the pain you are in, it would
be great to believe the fantasy again –wouldn’t it? Just ONE night where he pretends it’s gonna be good
again (and even though you know it’s not true and for that night you don’t even really care if he’s lying) and
both of you know how to fake it to ward off the pain and lonelieness. So there’s that night of
passion that has been fueled by fear and abandonment but the next day when everyone is past the
fantasy, it all starts again. Then you think since you gave in, and you really don’t have what it takes to end this
and leave anyway–so you sigh and resign yourself to just living in the hell. Telling yourself the truth is point-
ing to the ways you sabotage yourself. When you are tired, lonely and sick of pain and you feel the old
feelings of relapse sneaking in and your head is wanting the fantasy back—you don’t pick up the phone
and call someone who can remind you what reality is. You don’t plan something for that evening that will
help you get thru that night without sabotaging yourself. The video tape is replaying all the fragments
that only show ‘the good part’ of the relationship. It’s warm and cozy. You pick up the phone and call him
or you answer when he calls. Telling yourself the truth is about how long you had planned to self sabotage.
Those are 3 REALLY HARD THINGS to hear. But they are at the crux of recovery. Trauma, fear,
abandonment actually INCREASES people’s feeling of attachment. The more you have been hurt by him,
often the more attached intensely you will be. Those trauma bonds are hard to break and even harder
to live with. Women say they want MOST to be out of pain, flashbacks, and intrusive thoughts about the
relationship (good and bad) but they sabotage themselves by not protecting themselves by no contact,
by not managing their anxiety, by not developing a support system, by not planning ahead for sabotaging
thoughts, etc.

Recovery is a life change. It’s not a quick fix to get out of pain like Ativan or Xanax. Women who take
a whopping 6 weeks off of dating or a few months and jump back in are shocked to find themselves
right back in it–but usually with someone even WORSE than the last one. The most common factor
is each man is more dangerous than the one before. That’s because they think time heals wounds
and if it’s been a few months, SURELY it’s time to date again. Recovery heals wounds. Sitting out for
5 years and doing nothing about gathering insight about your weaknesses, relationship patterns, and
problems will not magically make you ready for a relationship because you waited 5 years. Time is time.
It just passes. You have to change your life in order to change your choices. Recovery, or changing your life is a new way of
seeing yourself, your previous relationships, your past, your choices, your coping skills–and most im-
portantly a future filled with different choices and healthier relationships.
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