ABSTRACT
In June, I relapsed after talmost eleven years of being sober. I went to my sponsor and got back into the program and moved into the Oxford House … you see, Oxford House came at a time in my life that I needed to have it. I believe that with all my heart. I stayed miserable because the thing I was struggling with—I wasn’t drinking or drugging—but I still had not found emotional sobriety because I was not able to have relationships with people. The Oxford House is important, of course, because we have a drug-free environment. But this house and the people in this house have taught me so much about being in relationships with other people. When a guy comes to an Oxford House, he doesn’t have client rights, he has client responsibilities. There is no staff on board that is being paid to watch him. He has a group of people that are recovering alcoholics and drug addicts who are going to hold him accountable for the well-being of their living environment.
