#103: How Long Should I Wait For My Partner's Recovery?
The Betrayed, The Addicted, The Expert
Ashlynn Mitchell, Brannon Patrick, Coby Mitchell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Caller Question: "My question is about intimacy avoidance. My husband and I have been separated for 16 months now and 12 months of that has been in separate countries with the inability to see each other due to Covid. We have a now 2-year-old. He has been sober for 5 months now. He is still unable to say if he wants the marriage or not. I have been accepting, patient, and hopeful but I feel in the last week I have reached apathy. He is due to come over to Australia in 2 weeks and I don't know how I feel anymore. I have been so excited and hopeful but he is so resistant and avoidant I am starting to feel frustrated and angry that he can’t make a decision. Is this normal and acceptable and a part of the process or is it him just waiting to see if he wants to fall back to his addiction and that he hasn’t truly accepted recovery? I feel miles ahead in my recovery and scared to be pulled back by him I want to let go but I don’t want to be unreasonable with time frames and regret it."
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| 0:00.0 | How long should I wait for my partner's recovery? |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Real Talk Recovery Podcast with the Therapy Brothers. |
| 0:10.0 | We're brothers, we're therapists, and we know recovery. |
| 0:14.0 | Bring your stories, your questions, your successes with real recovery. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, Tyler, that's a question I've never heard. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm just kidding. |
| 0:39.0 | I know. |
| 0:40.0 | I've heard it many times. |
| 0:42.0 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 0:43.0 | And I'm not sure we're going to have a really amazing concrete answer either, Brandon. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, I got a few answers because I've been asked it so many times. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.0 | It's a common one. |
| 0:56.0 | But I'm sure as we talk to our guests, there's some, some unique things going on that, |
| 1:02.0 | that really help flush out that answer to that question. |
| 1:06.0 | So, yeah, should we just dive into it? |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay. |
| 1:12.0 | Melissa, welcome to the show. |
| 1:14.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:15.0 | So you're coming to us from, from down under. |
| 1:19.0 | That's correct. |
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