You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.

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Okay, today we're going to talk about what it's like to leave someone when you love someone

struggling with addiction.

So like the common thread, the common denominator that we all struggle with, everyone in our

community, struggle with is whether we should leave or whether we should stay.

If you love someone struggling with addiction, it can feel incredibly, at moments, incredibly

hopeful because you finally think they've had the breakthrough through that you've been

waiting for and that they've finally made the commitment to getting sober once and

for all and that everything's going to be okay.

And then usually, eventually, they decide that they can't handle it and want and choose

to use drugs or alcohol or whatever they're addicted to and you get your heart broken.

You feel disappointed.

It's usually the cycle of what it's like to love someone struggling with addiction.

And usually that cycle is incredibly devastating and lonely and frustrating.

And each one of us, when loving someone struggling with addiction, has a line in the sand.

All of us do.

We have this line and for everyone, it's different where if it's eventually crossed, we know

we need to leave this relationship.

Now for some of us, an example of a line would be infidelity, right?

Our loved one cheats on us and for some of us, that's it.

We're out.

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