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Love Over Addiction

He Won’t Stop Drinking

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Has your loved one flat out refused to stop drinking (or whatever their substance of choice is) no matter how many times you've begged and pleaded? And what if their addiction is affecting your young children?

That's something a strong woman in our community spoke about recently (and how she tried to compromise with her husband multiple times).

Tune in for this new podcast episode to hear how she finally decided to move forward and is protecting her children, as well as reconnecting with herself.

Find more here:

https://loveoveraddiction.com/he-wont-stop-drinking/


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.

0:04.5

Okay, thank you so much for a grain to share your story with us.

0:22.5

Yes, thank you for having me.

0:24.5

Yeah, I am so excited for you to share your story.

0:28.5

I know some of your background.

0:30.5

So let's start at the beginning, but I always ask everyone, how did you first meet your partner and when did you know there was a problem?

0:39.5

Yeah, that is a great question and a good place to start.

0:43.5

So my husband is definitely one of the good ones.

0:46.5

I know we talk about that all the time.

0:48.5

A lot of these partners are good people that just struggle with addiction and that's definitely the camp that he falls in.

0:57.5

We met actually through some mutual friends.

1:00.5

One of my friends had gotten engaged and so I went to visit her and my now husband was living there at the time.

1:10.5

And while I was there, she kind of set us up and introduced us and we made a connection and we lived a few days away.

1:16.5

So we kind of carried on a long distance relationship for a little while.

1:20.5

And just reconnected kind of our friend's wedding and then handed that moving to my area after that.

1:28.5

Wanting to just get to know each other better and needed to find a new place of work and that kind of thing.

1:35.5

Our story is a little bit unique in that.

1:37.5

My husband had used substances a lot in his teenage years.

1:40.5

We had a really rough home life.

1:42.5

And more drugs back then though than alcohol.

1:46.5

And experimented with everything.

1:49.5

With smart enough though to not get addicted.

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