How To Stay And Find Your Power

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When we love someone suffering from addiction, the relationship will most likely become more unhealthy over time. Meaning that our ‘normal’ morphs and changes and we take on roles and behaviors that relationships without addiction don’t struggle with.

This is one way that we give away our power. So today we talk all about staying in your relationship and keeping your power. Because let’s be honest, if you’re going to stay, then you must take back all your power you’ve given away and find new avenues to be empowered in your situation.

And especially now, when we’re at home in these uncertain times. Everyone is walking around in masks, protecting ourselves and others. It’s scary. It feels surreal at times.

So let’s focus on staying with power today, okay?

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0:00.0	You're listening to the coronavirus phase and I'm recording this from my backyard because all my kids are inside homeschooling.
0:30.0	I so need to restrain myself from going on a tangent about homeschooling.
0:37.0	But basically, if you don't hear from me, if there's, if the podcast immediately ceased to exist and stop coming to you, it means you need
0:50.6	to send the police to my house because I am dead or someone in my family is
0:55.8	dead because of homeschooling. That's probably not a funny joke because people actually
1:01.8	are dying so please don't write emails or
1:03.9	contact us I get it was poor taste but you guys homeschooling oh my God I have a nine
1:12.4	year old who has more Zoom meetings than I ever had in one day, you know, of school
1:19.2	than I have in my entire career. So we have our good days and bad days. Yesterday was a great day. I'm
1:28.9	an introvert so it's kind of like my dream to have an excuse to stay at home and disconnect but also I'm
1:36.4	looking at my backyard right now and my grass has been dug up to create a dirt bike hills for my kids to ride their
1:50.0	bikes over these hills but at this point I'm so desperate. I will let them destroy anything
1:56.7	they want if it gives me 30 minutes of peace. So with that tangent here's the deal. I've been thinking about you, of course, and I came across this poem.
2:11.0	Some of you might have known it, or I've heard of it before, but basically it's about children, but I'm not going to apply it to kids. I'm going to apply it to our marriage and actually loving
2:23.2	someone with addiction because I read it and thought oh that's brilliant. And
2:28.0	this episode is about staying.
2:33.0	And this is specifically for you guys out there that go,
2:37.0	I'm not interested in leaving.
2:38.0	I don't want to get a divorce.
2:42.0	I, or you're, maybe you're not ready to get a divorce or you're maybe you're not ready to get a divorce you're thinking maybe it might be in your future but you're not quite sure.
2:49.8	You guys seriously I was just recording and my nine-year-old is
2:54.4	Knocking at the window waving at me because he's avoiding his Zoom call
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