My BADASS Friend

Dear Chrissy,

I never thought I would ever meet a woman like you. I also never thought there was a person out here that would help as much as you have. I'm grateful for everything you have shown me in the new life I have now. If it were not for you, I wouldn't be the woman I am today.

I knew the day I meet you that I wanted you to be in my life forever. You have always been an excellent inspiration to me. I have always look forward to spending the day with you when we first met. The more time I spent with you, the more I learned from you.

When you and I first met, I asked you all kinds of questions about being in sobriety; and the big book. There were so many questions running through my head I was not able to ask them all. But you assured me that everything would be fine. I wanted to believe you so bad that day.

But the next I saw you, it was only you and I in the car, so I was able to ask you more things and explain what type of life I was having and how I was ready for a change. I was just unable to make the change on my own. I told you how I called my family and asked if they would help me with the kids. So I could get the help I needed, and my family telling to pray to god and everything would be ok.

I was so mad when my family told me that, and I told you all about it. I told you how it made me feel and who just praying was not going to help with my problem. What happened next was a GOD thing. You told me you would keep my kids so I could go and do the 7day detox. I was so grateful to you.

I was surprised that this woman I had just met would keep my kids for 7 days. So that I could get help, that was the best day Of my life. I remember you telling me that you don't like kids, and you don't know what made you say you would keep my kids for 7days. But you knew that it was the right thing to do at the time.

As much of an inspiration to me, you have been. I want to be the same to you. You have shown me a better way to live than the way I was living. I have brighter days ahead of me now that you have helped show me a new way to live.

I was in a very dark place until you come into my life. You were the light at the end of a tunnel I never thought I would reach the end of. When you come into my life, It felt as if a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I am so grateful for everything that you have been there for me through thick and thin.

You are a BADASS woman I want to keep in my life for years to come. I never want to lose the inspiration you give me. I want to follow in your good footsteps. I want to be here for you like you were for me.

Chrissy, you have stood by many women that were in on their luck, and you never walked away. You are a strong individual woman. You have many things a lot of people wish they could have. In this struggle of recovery, you have many hands reaching out to you.

Chrissy, I want to make sure you know that I am here for you as well as any other woman in recovery. You have so much more to show me, and I can't wait to learn all of it from you. You may be in a dark place of your own right now, but you still are a badass woman. That will never change.

I always run to you when I need any advice. You were the one I would come to when I wanted to say something important to a boyfriend or friend but never knew how to say it. You never let me down. Chrissy, you have always given the best advice I have ever received from anyone.

I remember the first time you told me you loved me. I looked at you like you were crazy. As I thought to myself, this lady doesn't even know me. How can she love me? There is no way that this lady loves me, and she just met me.

I remember going home that night and thinking about you telling me you loved me, and I figured it out. You were telling me you loved me as a person. Not like the love you would give a significant other. I never said it back to you for a long time until I fully understood that saying I loved you meant I loved you as a person and for being in my life helping me overcome the obstacles placed in my life.

I never realized that love comes in so many different forms, and you showed me how to love again. Not only how to love the person helping me but how to love myself again. I was able to start loving myself and my family again. You opened my eyes to so many things.

Things in my life are so different now. They suggest that you stay single for at least a year before getting into any relationship in sobriety. I can say that sounded crazy to me. I never thought that no dating for a year would make a difference, but it does. You, Chrissy, showed me that.

You also showed me that you can still have fun even being sober. I always figured that when you become sober that there was no more fun. I had always thought that the only way to have fun was with all the drugs and alcohol. But you proved me wrong. I have so much more fun now that I am clean than I ever did during inactive drug use.

I have been places I never thought I would go. When I was on drugs, I spent all of the money I had on drugs. Now that you showed me a different way to live, I spend my money on fun things to do with my kids. I have a car now, and I always have money in my pocket. I am able to let my kids do extracurricular activities. Because I have the money to pay for whatever they want to do.

You are and will always be a badass woman to me. You hold your head high and show many others they can do that same thing if they only give into the process. You are a badass woman among all the other badass women. You have made mine and my kid's life so much better, just by giving me a few steps to follow to stay sober.

Thank you for being a massive inspiration to me and showing me that I can do it if I really want it. I love you. Continue to be the badass woman you are, and many will follow. Thank you for showing me how to love myself and other people the right way.