It’s Okay to Be Angry

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone suffering from addiction, have you ever felt angry at some point? Maybe your loved one lied to you (again). Or spent every dime in your bank account that you needed for bills.

After getting angry, did you feel ashamed or even embarrassed? If so, please give yourself lots of grace. Anger is actually your body's way of saying that something is not okay with what's going on around you.

So what do you do with that anger? Tune into this week's episode where I share why it's 100% okay to be angry and how to start enjoying the here and now even when you're feeling this way.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, so I'm sitting on the front porch outside. I just finished eating lunch and I wanted to talk to you today
0:29.1	about anger. Here's the deal, especially if you're a woman, and I know that slightly sounds
0:38.9	sexist, but hang with me. If you are a woman and you are dealing with feelings of anger, most likely
0:49.2	you're feeling ashamed or embarrassed because typically the story that we've been told is that
0:56.4	women don't behave women don't get angry right we're reasonable we reasonable, we're calm, we're maternal, we're soothing, we're
1:05.4	empathetic, we're soft, we're gentle, and anything other than that makes us feel really angry. I mean anything other than that,
1:17.7	anything outside of that, especially anger, makes us feel really ashamed and embarrassed and wrong. I know when I was
1:29.4	married to a great man who suffers from addiction, I felt anger a lot of the time.
1:35.8	Whether I was saying I was angry or whether it was just bubbling below the surface,
1:41.6	I was angry at so many things I was angry that he wasn't
1:46.1	getting sober I was angry that my life had become this broken and desperate. I was angry at myself for staying in a relationship
1:57.5	that practically I know I should be leaving. I was angry at him for lying. I was angry at drugs and alcohol for ripping the man I loved
2:10.3	away from me. I was angry at the people in his life for not helping me out and stepping in and having my back and getting helping me get this man sober.
2:21.0	I was angry at rehab because it didn't work and the rehab
2:27.1	facility that he went to and I like was a single mom with three young kids
2:32.4	while he got massages acupuncture and
2:35.7	did all sorts of therapeutic stuff it didn't work it bought us three days and of
2:41.9	sobriety and then he went back to his addiction and I was
2:45.2	angry about that. I was angry that there was no stories or no women or no
2:51.2	other people talking about what the heck is going on in their families and
2:59.6	and that addiction is just ripping away and stealing our loved ones.
3:04.5	And I was angry about that there was nothing positive
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