Dropping Expectations

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2018

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone that drinks too much or suffers from addiction it's easy to be wrapped up in their disease, their actions, and their situations.

We are high achieving women, and we can develop unrealistic expectations (yes, that means too high of expectations) for yourself and those around. These unrealistic expectations you can steal your joy and make it hard enjoy anything.

But what if you start to make peace with who you are right now. Take some time to look around and notice all of the good things that are happening.

Listen to the podcast or read the blog to hear how to get rid of the expectations that may be holding you back.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. It's almost the new year and historically I have done a podcast about the holidays, but I've already done that.
0:25.8	And so if you're looking for helpful tips on how to deal with New Year's Eve,
0:31.2	then I suggest going back a couple episodes and we will link to those
0:36.9	episodes in this show notes. Basically we've covered all of the most helpful tips that you need this evening because
0:46.0	we've definitely been there and done that and I don't want to be redundant and I definitely do not want to be boring anything but
0:58.4	boring so if you're looking for helpful tips on how to deal with the New Year's, just head back a couple
1:05.2	episodes. But today I'm going to use you as a sounding board to work through my own thoughts and something I've been
1:15.4	struggling with lately and I think it might pertain to you too maybe so maybe we can
1:22.0	work on it together.
1:24.8	I am 41 and I feel like I'm finally
1:29.9	finally figuring out who I really am. The last time that I really took a really good
1:37.7	honest look about myself was during my divorce from a wonderful man who suffers from alcoholism and
1:45.6	addiction and you guys that was over 10 years ago and yes it's true I have been
1:52.2	taking inventory here or there.
1:55.0	But have I really been asking myself the defining questions that will help make decisions about my future?
2:04.0	And have I really gone deep, super, super deep?
2:08.0	And the answer, the truthful answer is, no.
2:12.0	Mostly because I have a ton of kids and I'm busy and just
2:16.7	dealing with life you know like getting dinner on the tables struggle enough who
2:21.5	has time to really reflect? That feels like a luxury at this point in my life.
2:28.0	But lately, I've been asking myself some really difficult questions and trying to make peace with complete
2:36.6	acceptance of who I am today.
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