Adapted from passages from SA, AA, and 12&12

We
We admitted
We admitted that we were powerless over lust—
Who cares to admit complete defeat?
No person likes to think he is bodily and mentally different from his fellows.
Every natural instinct cries out against the idea of personal powerlessness.
Many of us felt inadequate, unworthy, alone and afraid,
Restless, irritable and discontented.
Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.
We were having trouble with personal relationships
We couldn’t control our emotional natures
We were a prey to misery and depression
We couldn’t make a living
We had a feeling of uselessness
We were full of fear
We were unhappy
We couldn’t be of real help to other people—
Our lives had become unmanageable.

We admitted that we were powerless over lust—
Lack of power, that was our dilemma.
Lusting after the Big Fix, we gave away our power to others.
Please connect with me and make me whole!
100% hopeless—our habit made true intimacy impossible.
No other kind of bankruptcy is like this one.
Fantasy corrupted the real; lust killed love.
No words can tell of the loneliness and despair.
We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were sexaholics.
The delusion that we are like other people has to be smashed.
There was always one more attempt—and one more failure.
There was belief in God without surrender.
That belief availed nothing!
We had never died to lust.
Our lives had become unmanageable.

We admitted that we were powerless over lust—that our lives had become unmanageable.
Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake.
We perceive that only through utter defeat are we able to take our first steps toward liberation and strength.
The crucial change in attitude began when we admitted we were powerless.
We discovered that we could stop.
There was hope for freedom and we began to feel alive.
We need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in us and in our attitudes.

How dark it is before the dawn!
We were to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.
Our admissions of personal powerlessness finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
Taking the actions of love to improve our relations with others, we were finding what none of the substitutes had ever supplied.
We were making the real Connection.
We were home.