Interview: How I’m Deciding To Stay Or Go

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

How do you know if you should stay or leave your relationship when you love someone struggling with addiction?

I had the pleasure of speaking with a brave woman in our community recently who shared the lessons she's learned while working on her own healing and her reasoning for staying or leaving her marriage.

Tune in to this week's new podcast episode to hear how she built up her confidence and independence and how she grappled with what the church says about divorce.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.
0:04.4	Thank you so much for agreeing to talk with me and share your story.
0:24.2	I am incredibly grateful.
0:26.0	Well, thank you for having me.
0:29.6	Okay, so we're going to go and talk a little bit about your partner and what kind of substance do they struggle with?
0:42.4	Okay, we met in junior high.
0:47.1	We dated for about a year and a half in early high school.
0:54.1	We had broken up for a few years, so we always kept in contact and we always had a connection.
1:01.8	And then when he graduated college, we got back together permanently and got married.
1:10.2	And basically he's a high achiever, very smart, loving, a very good provider for a family.
1:23.9	He has a really good position at his job, he's had his job for a long time, he's just a very good man.
1:32.9	He does have a strong family history of alcoholism, his substance is beer, he drinks beer and it's quite a problem.
1:48.1	And as far back as I can remember, he has struggled with anxiety and moodiness.
1:57.0	And basically that's him and a nut shell.
2:03.5	We've been together for over 26 years and it's been a long road, it's been a long road.
2:13.2	So he is what you would define as a high functioning alcoholic.
2:18.6	Yes, is that what that would be correct?
2:21.0	And only beer, which is very interesting, so no hard liquor, no other substances?
2:27.9	No, no.
2:29.4	Okay, that's interesting.
2:31.9	And so how many drinks would you say he drinks on average per week?
2:38.5	Or is he more of a binge drinker that he has excessive amounts of beer at random times?
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