A Simple Tool To Help When You Love Someone With Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Everything in our life is a season. Some seasons are longer than others, and some may be harder than others.

No matter what ‘season’ we may be in, we learn tips and tools to help us along the way.

When I was married to a good man that suffered from addiction, that was one of the hardest seasons of my life. I learned all kinds of tips and tools to handle the disease, and some of these, I still use to this day.

Today I’d love to share with you one simple tool that you can use every single day.

I used this tool when I was married to my ex-husband, and I started using it again recently when we moved into our new (99-year-old) house, and it started falling apart.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. You guys I am completely overwhelmed. It's back to school time so backpacks and school
0:26.0	supplies and teacher conferences and all of the details. Kill me. Plus I moved into a 99 year old home that hasn't been updated in
0:39.0	well 99 years and our big family uses a house hard so naturally the house went into shock
0:50.5	one week after we moved in and the plumbing burst and the electricity gave out and oh yeah we had an ant problem
0:59.2	Have you seen the movie the money pit? So as I was scraping wallpaper off the wall stained, the water
1:06.3	stained walls, I rented the Money Pit hoping to find someone even if they are fictional characters who
1:17.8	feels like they might have made a huge investment mistake because they fell in love with a house which is exactly
1:25.6	what happened to me and I do love the house you guys but renovations plus back to
1:31.2	school plus work equal nothing good.
1:35.0	So I came up with a plan and I wanted to share it with you
1:40.0	because I know how loving and living with someone suffering from addiction can feel overwhelming
1:46.4	and painful and incredibly traumatic. And so we are going to start doing this new plan together.
1:54.4	It's called the Just Three Things Planned.
1:58.7	See, I told you I was tired and when I have energy I'll think of a new more creative name but it's called
2:05.8	the just three things plan and here's our plan you guys every day seven days a
2:12.1	week we are going to do just three things.
2:17.0	And they are going to be the same three things,
2:20.0	because consistency is the key here.
2:23.0	So let me give you an example.
2:25.0	My three things are the following.
2:28.0	Number one, pick up the house for one hour.
2:31.0	Now, this may seem like a a lot but this includes starting the laundry
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