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When making amends might cause more harm than healing

Three years sober and my sponsor wants me to make amends to my ex-wife but she remarried and seems happy and I feel like contacting her would just be selfish at this point.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

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The tension between following recovery protocols and respecting others' boundaries reveals the complexity of ethical action in repair work.

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