You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.

Well, hello. Thank you so much for agreeing to share your story with us.

Absolutely. I'm very excited to be here and tell my story and I really hope that it can

help someone else because I know that the interview podcast have really helped me.

I love that. Yes, they are seem to be incredibly popular so I'm always so appreciative of

anyone having the courage to step forward and share their experience.

So what I like to do is start from the beginning and talk about when did you first meet your

husband and how did you know there was a problem but if that's not an appropriate place to start

for you, please feel free to start anywhere you choose. Okay, so buckle up.

I'm ready. So my husband and I are both from a very small town outside of it's basically a suburb.

We went to the same high school but we knew who each other were in high school but we didn't

connect until college. So I was 19 and he was 22 at the time. He had been out of town at a university.

He was in a fraternity, had a little too much fun, parties, and lost his scholarship. So his

parents had him come back home to the local college to kind of get his grades in order before

going back to finish his degree at the university where he started. So during that summer,

this 2010 is when we walked past each other at college. It kind of seemed like state at the time.

And like I said, we already knew who each other were but we were friends on Facebook and he

message me on Facebook after I was doing and then it kind of transpired from there. We went on

a date and immediately we connected. He is very funny and that was the first thing that I loved

about him. He always makes me laugh. He's very thoughtful and like you usually say,

one of the hardest parts about this disease is that it happens to really wonderful people.

So we're dating. We go on a date, we date throughout the summer. Shortly after we started dating,

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