How To Have A Real Conversation With Your Kid

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you have kids, having a real conversation with them about your partner's addiction is important.

Because here's the thing: not only is addiction common in many families, but kids are very observant. They notice when something isn't 'right' with their parent that struggles with addiction, and as a result, they may be feeling some shame or uncertainty.

Tune in to this new episode where I share why it's important to normalize talking about addiction with your child(ren), as well as how it may even be necessary for their own health.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.
0:18.4	Hey! How are you? How was your weekend if you're listening to this on Monday or Sunday?
0:26.4	I remember I used to hate Fridays and love Mondays. At the very beginning, when I loved someone
0:34.2	suffering from addiction, when his addiction was at the beginning stages and it didn't completely
0:43.4	overtake his life, he was still functioning. Alcoholic and substance abuse, it would be the drinking
0:52.0	would only be on weekends and I remember counting the days until I knew there was going to be
1:01.2	fighting or neglecting or withdrawal or some kind of horrible weekend and I would be so grateful
1:11.7	when it turned Monday because I knew okay I at least can get four good days out of them, right?
1:18.5	The next four days most likely are going to be sober but as you and I know this disease is
1:25.0	progressive unfortunately and the people we love develop immunity and in a way it's not entirely
1:34.2	accurate but in other words it takes more and more for them to get high or get drunk and it does
1:46.1	what they used to do and the beginning is not enough and so it progresses and gets worse if they
1:52.2	choose not to get sober. So eventually for me at least the drinking and drug use and all the other
1:58.8	stuff that went along with it started becoming a Thursday you know start on Thursday and then by
2:07.0	the end when I was getting divorced it was I mean I wouldn't see him for days at a time he would
2:13.3	just pick up and leave the family and we would be left there wondering when he was going to come back.
2:19.0	But that's not what I want to talk about today. Today I want to tell you a little personal story
2:24.3	and so bear with me I don't write these things out I'm not reading from a script I'm literally
2:29.8	my backyard and it's just you and me and I just wanted to share this really personal thing with you
2:36.7	I thought you would be so excited to hear it. So on Friday my daughter came home and she's like
2:43.6	mom I have to talk to you and of course as a mom you hear that and you're like oh no what's going on.
2:52.2	But she came home really upset and she explained to me that she was asked she's a senior in high school
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