3 Tips for Communicating Boundaries To Your Partner Suffering From Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Every woman walking this earth should know her boundaries and understand how to enforce them because boundaries make us strong, powerful, and respected. This is imperative when you love someone suffering from any kind of addiction: alcohol, illegal drugs, prescription pills, pornography, or sex, among other things.

But many of us get this very necessary skill wrong. Today on the Love Over Addiction Podcast, you’ll learn 3 tips for communicating boundaries.

Check out these highlights from the episode:

Should you state your boundaries as a monologue or be very brief?
Is it helpful to practice your boundaries before relaying them to your partner?
What should you do if you’re afraid of how your partner will react to your boundaries?

Read our blog at https://loveoveraddiction.com/2018/08/3-tips-for-communicating-boundaries/

If you want to learn more about the Love Over Boundaries program, visit us at https://loveoveraddiction.com/love-over-boundaries/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey there it's Michelle. I hope you are doing well today and when I say I hope you're doing well, I understand that when I'm every time that I before I start this
0:26.7	podcast I think about where you are right now I think about if you are feeling sad or lonely or depressed if you're struggling
0:40.3	or maybe you're feeling great maybe your loved one is sober or maybe you're feeling great, maybe your loved one is sober, or maybe you've joined
0:45.8	one of our programs at love over addiction.com and you're realizing that you are in charge
0:55.0	have choices and that you are in charge of your own happiness
1:01.3	and your own future and you're learning the tips and tools to get happy
1:09.2	whether the one you love gets sober or not. So today, wherever you're at, I want you to know something that,
1:20.8	and I tell you this all the time, but I really want you to hear it. You don't have to do this alone.
1:28.0	You've now found your people. You've found your helpers. We are a sisterhood and we have your back.
1:35.0	And no matter where you are in the world, because we have women from all over the world,
1:40.0	you are not alone. In fact, just the other day I saw a post in our secret Facebook group of two women that met up and have become best friends who met through our program, which just warms my heart and they
1:59.5	were precious.
2:01.0	So today we're going to be talking about boundaries. I know some of you are like
2:06.2	Michelle boundaries again. I hear you but hear me out.
2:12.7	I'm telling you, I have, I left my ex-husband,
2:18.1	I think like 10, you know me in numbers,
2:20.9	but like 10 maybe more years ago I still have to work on my
2:25.8	boundaries you guys like every now someone said to me the other day who's a good
2:30.3	friend of mine she's like, your boundaries are incredible.
2:32.8	Like I've never met any.
2:33.8	And I'm like, yeah, because I work on them.
2:35.8	Like I, they're pretty solid, but that's only because I have to work on them all the time.
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