Are You Doing Too Much Work?

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone struggling with addiction, have you ever wondered what it could look like if they ever got sober? Or what their behaviors would be and if they're someone who you can have hope in?

Over the last couple of episodes, we've been working through some of the '12 Steps' of recovery because it's important to have reasonable expectations for yourself about where they may be in their recovery.

Tune in to this new episode where I pick up with Steps 5 and 6 and why forgiveness and their willingness to make changes are essential.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.
0:04.4	Hey! How are you? Okay, so we have been talking about the 12 steps and if you've
0:27.0	not listened to the last two episodes, um, I would definitely, like this is kind of a mini
0:32.9	series, I would love for you to do that. Um, if you don't want to, then do not and start
0:40.8	right here in the middle. Um, but we have talked about steps one through four, um, and today
0:48.2	hopefully I'm going to get through step five and six. And okay, so why am I bringing up
0:54.4	the 12 steps is again, not an endorsement saying that alcoholics anonymous, which is where
1:02.0	the 12 steps originated from, um, is the only or key way to get your loved one sober. Um,
1:11.5	I'm not saying that. I'm also not saying it's not the way to get them sober. This is not
1:17.8	about an assessment of the success or failure of alcoholics anonymous. I know some people
1:26.1	who have it, it has worked for and who swear by that program and I know some people who
1:32.2	have not, it has not been successful. Now, why am I bringing up the 12 steps then you
1:38.2	might ask? Um, I'm bringing it up because I think we get confused when we love someone
1:46.8	struggling with addiction on what would it look like if they actually got sober? Like what,
1:55.9	what would their behaviors be? What would their, uh, conversations be? What would our relationship
2:03.5	look like? And we get so used to the insanity because it's definitely insane. Um, and there's
2:11.5	a lot of craziness and it's like a rollercoaster ride with Jack, Mr, Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde,
2:17.3	um, loving someone that struggles with addiction. It's very unpredictable. You are walking
2:23.6	on a minefield, never quite knowing when things are going to blow up that that can become
2:32.6	normalized. That can become, we can become so used to the craziness that we become almost
2:45.4	numbed out to it. Like we expect it and we lose sight of what a healthy relationship looks
2:52.7	and sounds like. And so I'm here to kind of cut through the fog and say, Hey, hey, let's
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