From Relationship Roadkill to Recommitment

As a woman for whom the relationship “r-word” had been “roadkill” more often than “recommitment,” it is surprising that I leapt to the assumption that “May is National Recommitment Month” was for lovers. A Google search, however, led in a different direction:

Apparently Recommitment Month originated as a time to look back on New Year’s resolutions and reenergize (recommit to) goals set and vows made with a champagne glass in one hand and a blowout noisemaker stuck between pursed lips.  Recommitment Month is also an over-used leitmotif commandeered by addiction facilities to hawk their pricey rehab gigs.

Since my only New Year’s resolution is never to make NYRs — because I already know my commitment will be lip-service deep; and since, fortunately, I’m not in need of a dry-out, I’m going to stick with what I, multi-divorced but now blissfully hitched, finally figured out about both commitment … and its scary twin, “re.”

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