I'm all for Rush getting better, of course. It's just that these reports smack of "tell them exactly what his loving fans want to hear". I hope Rush takes care of his problem, on the timetable it requires. I hope he doesn't feel pressured to come back on for any reason, even if he is a valuable voice for truth and conservatism.
Rush, if you can read this, just please put yourself first right now! We'll hold down the fort here, with love, while you're taking care of number one.
Correct. In my NA meetings, I now refer to sobriety as a cup or a mug. If your mug is broken, it cannot hold anything. No matter what you pour into it, it is wasted.
It is better to have a slightly-filled mug with no breaks in it, than it is to have a broken mug that is continuously filled.
Your life cannot contain anything of value if your sobriety is broken. Rush needs to understand this and NUMBER ONE PRIORITY is he needs a sponser.
And he really needs to work the program. All 12 steps. /
Luckily, he really hasn't. He signed up for those weekend quick-detoxes, without letting anyone know what he was doing. That is just about useless for anything other than a temporary removal of opiates from the bloodstream. That does NOTHING to address the issue. So those two little opiate removals were not a good example of what Rush is capabale of when he enlists G-d and his friends and family in to help him truly overcome the evil poppy.
And I agree with the previous poster who said that the reason Rush let it go on so long was that he was truly afraid of disheartening all of his listeners. I think he was afraid he would be seen as something other than what he is. Unfortunately, when you start holding the world on your shoulders, the urge to shrug becomes irresistable.