My drug treatment centeris really cool.  They’ve split up the groups into “men” and “women”.  There are some really good reasons for this.  One is that it is hard sometimes to discuss some of the more private aspects of your addiction in front of the opposite sex.  For a lot of people on opiates or methadone maintenance programs you have issues with impotency.  It’s the dirty little secret of male drug addiction that no one likes to talk about.  In my men’s group we’ve all had to deal with it and its easier for us to share because there are no chicks there.  The other good reason is the whole attraction thing.Many drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers and programs do NOT separate the sexes.  Despite the facility saying you can get kicked out for hooking up but people still do it– where there’s a will there’s a way.  Even though people tell you that you shouldn’t, that it won’t last, that two people so vulnerable shouldn’t hit it…people still do.  My center had us partitioned off to keep this from happening.  Just like with drugs, sometimes its best to remove the temptation altogether.  You see it all the time, two people get close because other people in their lives supposedly don’t understand them or whatever.  Suddenly, they’re cheating on their girlfriends or spouses.  In fact, you see it a lot in AA groups because those people tend to stick to themselves and don’t associate outside of AA.  I could be generalizing though.

I really love my girlfriend so I try to avoid that kind of mess altogether.  I also know that whether or not she understands specifically what I’m going through or what my drug treatment program is all about, I do remember every day that she pushed me into it, that she trusts me and believes in me.  My men’s group suits me just fine.

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