How To Listen To Your Whisper And Let Go Of The Voice Of Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever questioned whether to stay in your relationship or leave? It’s a big question. And that’s frankly an understatement. It’s a life-changing, wildly impactful decision of a lifetime.

And listen, we never do judgment in this community. So whether you decide to stay or leave, that’s up to you.

Today’s episode though, it’s about a whisper. A whisper within us that we may hear, or we may not be able to yet. The voice of addiction in our own heads is loud, ugly, demanding, and full of lies. It covers up our own voice. Our whisper within is clouded by the loud ugliness of our partner’s addiction.

Learn how to uncover your whisper, and more importantly, listen to it.

Find more here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/listen-to-your-whisper/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, so in the next two episodes I want to speak to those of you that are thinking about
0:26.7	leaving or in the midst of leaving your loved ones suffering from addiction.
0:31.7	Now here's the deal. In this first episode I want to talk about
0:36.9	the absolute necessity of fighting for our lives, and sometimes I do mean that literally, when we decide to leave
0:49.5	addiction.
0:51.2	Most of us will be wanting to leave somebody who does not want to be left.
0:56.0	Why? Because addiction likes control.
1:00.0	Addiction likes to be the one in charge trying to tell you how to feel, how to think, how to behave, how to act.
1:11.0	It has gotten away with for years. It has gotten away with the role in your life of being the
1:20.2	controller. And when you choose to leave the moment that addiction and
1:28.2	remember for those of us that are new to this community we consider addiction a third party in our relationships.
1:36.1	So that's why I often refer to it as a separate entity because we fell in love with somebody who loves, who is loving and kind
1:47.4	and thoughtful and then we, there's ourselves in the relationship who is also kind and loving and thoughtful and
1:56.2	then there's the disease of addiction which is the third party kind of like the
2:00.2	mistress and that is the reason why your relationship is in such turmoil and
2:06.2	chaos and is so difficult because of that third party. So listen, addiction has kept
2:12.3	you under its thumb for so long.
2:15.0	And the moment that you decide that you are going to step away from this relationship,
2:21.0	that you are going to take a pause, and you are going to take a pause and you are going to separate or that you are done and that this is it and you've had enough and you want a new life and you're daring to dream of your new future, the moment that addiction catches a wave of that, gets any indication that you are stepping out from underneath this spell that it has cast over you for so long, it gets
2:46.9	scared, it gets nervous, and it will try to do anything and everything to get you back under control, to get you back under its
2:56.8	spell. So for some of us that looks like intimidation. It will call you and berate you in the middle of the day and tell you to shut
3:06.8	the F up and it will call you names. It might tell you that you're worthless and that if you ever
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