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A Brief Essay about ADDICTION
Anne Wilson Schaef has written that if you are tempted to be dishonest you are addicted; even if you have not "yielded" to the temptation to be dishonest. True lovers are not even tempted to be dishonest, because they know that being dishonest is a sure way to undermine most personal and communal integrities which give meaning and significance to living and loving.

Domineering people who feel that they must be in control to be secure, are often tempted to be dishonest. Many become addicted to collusive games of mutual self deception, while trying to use coercion and violence to achieve security through invulnerability. Such efforts are tragically futile and hopeless, but domineering people do not dare break their collusion's rules by dealing honestly with the futility of their efforts. They would be rejected by their friends if they broke collusion rules! They dare not! Trying to stand together, they fall together. 


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        436 ADDICT         206 CONTROL        198 ADDICTION
        153 ADDICTIVE      148 SIN            147 COLLUSION
        145 LOVE           137 EVIL           130 CODEPENDENT
        126 SELF            86 CODEPEND        80 INTEGRITY
         80 COLLUSIVE       77 GOD             77 DOMINATION
         74 CONFLICT        71 DISHONEST       68 HONEST
         66 VIOLENCE        65 SYSTEM          62 PERSONAL
         61 POWER           59 DISHONESTY      54 GOOD
         53 COMMUNAL        53 CODEPENDENCE    47 LAW
         47 ADDICTS         46 SALVATION       44 DECEPTION
         44 ALIENATION      43 COLLUSIONS      43 ADDICTIONS
         40 TRUTH           40 RESPECT         40 FEAR
         40 COLLUDE         38 TRUE            38 RELATIONSHIPS
         38 PEOPLE          38 FAIL            38 COERCION
         37 RESOLUTION      37 RELIGIOUS       37 REFLEXIVE
         35 SINS            35 OBJECTIVE       35 EXCLUSIVE
         34 SEXUAL          34 PARADIGM        34 ARROGANCE


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