How to Pick The Best Time To Talk to Your Loved One

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone suffering from addiction, it can be hard to let things go sometimes. Maybe you found empty bottles after they said they'd stop drinking. Or they came home late again (or not at all). You probably want to get to the bottom of what they did (and why).

But how can you effectively express what you're feeling when they've been drinking or using? You want to feel heard and recognized, right?

In this week's episode, I share a tool on how to talk to your loved one when you're feeling worried, frustrated, or hurt.

Find more here:
https://loveoveraddiction.com/best-time-to-talk/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hi, it's Michelle. I'm in Florida and it is hotter than Hades here. Holy cow. Actually, I'm not sure how
0:28.0	Hot Hades is, so I can't really say that with total certainty, but it's summertime, it's mid-July, and I am dying of heat stroke.
0:39.0	It's ridiculous.
0:40.0	Also, the virus is in full effect still, I can't believe this, but good news, kids are going
0:48.9	back to school, can you believe it?
0:51.7	I have a 19 year old I promise we're going to get into addiction
0:56.0	very soon but I have a 19 year old who is going off to college for the first time
1:01.8	he's at my oldest and he was held back a year. So he is going off to
1:08.2	Virginia to go to college and you guys I can't like find my breath I am so anxious I know he needs to go I know
1:19.2	will be good for him but I am struggling. I've just done for better or for worse a really good job of
1:28.8	protecting my kids and now I can't because they're leaving and that scares me to death.
1:37.0	So that's what I'm struggling with.
1:41.0	Just to be realistic and honest. You might hear some anxiety in my voice for the next couple episodes and that's what it's about
1:49.8	It's just about me coming to grips with the idea of letting go, right?
1:56.0	And I know you probably can relate to that because there's a lot of you that are letting go in your relationships
2:02.3	when you love someone
2:03.2	suffering from addiction too. And letting go is tough and it's hard and it's
2:07.8	scary and you're full of anxiety because you just don't know. You don't know how things are going to be in the future you don't
2:15.4	know how everything's going to work out you don't even know if if everything's
2:18.8	going to work out and so it's it's hard. It's yucky place. It feels, you know, like a constant pit in your stomach.
2:30.0	And I'm eating. This is how I'm coping right now. My profound coping skills are food and food and food and food.
2:41.0	And I don't even care. You guys I'm eating don't even care. You guys, I'm eating like a farm animal.
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