How To Help When Your Child Is Suffering From Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Does your child suffer from addiction? Have you found them drinking, using drugs, huffing, or taking pills? If their parent suffers from addiction, that means they have a genetic predisposition.

Today we hear from a brave women in our community who caught her son smoking pot, and started a ten year battle with addiction that’s still going on to this day.

Her boundaries, staying in her lane, and not enabling saved her son. And they’re closer than ever in their relationship.

Let’s make space for Natalie and her story. She’s truly an inspiration as a mother, as a wife, and as a powerful, strong woman.

Find more: https://loveoveraddiction.com/podcast/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Today we get to hear a conversation with Michelle and Natalie.
0:23.0	Natalie is a mother whose son has struggled with addiction.
0:27.0	She's been in our community for years and her healing and growth have been tremendous.
0:32.0	As always, let's make a judgment-free space for Natalie
0:36.0	as she shares her personal story about having a child
0:39.0	suffering from addiction.
0:50.4	Natalie, thank you so much for agreeing to talk to me about what I'm sure is a painful situation in your life. not only were you married to a good man who suffers from
0:56.5	addiction, but your son is also addicted.
1:01.5	Can you help me explain just a little bit about when your child became addicted?
1:07.5	When did you first notice? What kind of substances do they struggle with? Sure, I know.
1:15.0	I'm sorry, and how you felt about it going, going through that situation?
1:21.0	Sure. So we, this has been about a 10 year struggle process for us and he's in his mid-20 year struggle process for us and he's in his mid-20s now, but it was the end of seventh grade and it was the last day of school in seventh grade and we were all set to go away on a
1:47.0	family vacation the next day out of the country and I caught him a smoking pot before school and oh I freaked out like how could this brilliant person be doing this in front of me?
2:05.0	And you know, after I went through his room, I found so much drug paraphernalia that it made me just stick to my stomach.
2:19.0	Like how could I not have seen this? How could this be having? We would live in a small house. How could I not have seen this? How could this be having... We live in a small house. How could I not have seen this? And how did this happen to me? I must be an awful parent or how, you know, how, how could I not have seen it and so I believe that when you know I
2:38.9	only saw what I could see the marijuana at that point in time. And then it escalated to anything that he could do.
2:50.0	It wasn't like there was a favorite thing at how old are you in seventh grade 14 13 14
2:58.7	14 years old it was Vanak, Mali's alcohol, marijuana, you name it, and then the circle of friends that were new that you know had this look of you know we're not we're not
3:18.3	into studying but we're really into just getting high and checking out of life.
3:24.0	And so it was those first few years, I'll tell you that it was very difficult for me because that was not him.
3:35.0	not him.
3:39.6	And just trying to find that balance
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