You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.

Hey, thanks so much for giving us all of the positive feedback about these interviews.

I'm so glad you are enjoying them.

I just want to state the obvious, though, before we get started today.

Loving someone that struggles with addiction can sometimes make our home life unsafe.

And some of the women that have come forward are being, all of them are incredibly brave,

but some of them are actually in unsafe situations, and their anonymity is really important.

So they're conducting these interviews outside of their home, and the recording quality

is not always going to be great.

I'm not asking anyone to come to a studio or invest in anything expensive or just using

old-fashioned phones.

So thank you so much for understanding if you hear cars in the background, or it's less

than ideal.

I think the important thing is that we recognize these incredibly brave women for coming forward

and being willing to share because their hearts and intention is to help.

And I think that's incredibly admirable, and I know you do too.

Thank you so much for agreeing to share your story with me.

I am incredibly grateful.

Okay.

So how did you meet your husband, and when did you know there was maybe a problem?

Okay.

So funny story is we met at a dance club, so it was back when I was drinking a lot and

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