Accountability partners are emphasized at the church I go to. For those not familiar an accountability partner is a person that holds you accountable to your actions and many Christians use them to help keep them from making mistakes. Christians are just people too. Anyhow an accountability partner should NOT be someone who confronts you in such a way that their intent is to make you feel bad, or to make themselves feel better.
Any bloggers in blogging land who has accountability partner and how does your relationship work? My partner and I meet once a week over coffee and tell each other what we have been struggling with. It is not the type where I say to her “Sally you have been….lately” It is more “Sally I have been…lately” Although, we do have a close enough relationship that we can confront each other, but we never have too. For instance, she went to a porn site and immediately called me and asked me what to do. I told her to put pictures of her family on her computer so every time she is at her computer she has a family staring back at her. It worked.
Are accountability partners something only Christians use? Are there any non-Christians out there who have someone that they meet with to help them continue to make right choices?
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Fanaile Essence and I do that for one another when it comes to writing. I'll tell her I haven't written lately and I need to do X,Y or I'm having trouble with X,Y and it helps get me back on track. And she tells me what she's having trouble with and we offer advice and such to one another. We did it quite often during NaNO. We would login to YIM and chat while we wrote. it helped keep us going and we were able to help each other when we got stuck or needed a quick critique.
Outside of writing, my husband tends to be my accountability partner. I'll say today I did X or today Y made me angry and he listens while I sort it out. I'm pretty good at sorting it out and getting myself back on track, I just need to have that person to talk too while I sort it out. For him, he needs someone to give advice and help him sort it out. So, it works well. My sister and I also kind of work in that accountability partner way too, though we use each other more as a sounding board to vent and clear our heads and get another perspective on an issue before getting back up and trying to tackle the issue again.
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~Fallon~
“What is insanity, anyway? Is it when you scream and everyone else whispers, or is it when you fight for what's right, even when everyone else thinks your wrong?” Ethergoth
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too know that there is someone who cares enough for you and your wellbeing that they allow themselves to be available to listen to you and help you out.
That is how I feel about it my partner.
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