Part I - How To Deal With Denial When You Love Someone Suffering From Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone suffering from addiction, it can be hard to see clearly in that situation. Especially if they develop their addiction habits after you meet them.

When we’re in the thick of loving someone suffering from addiction, we can have blinders on. We can be in denial, or make excuses for them. We begin to think that this crazy environment, with all this chaos, is normal. Have you ever felt that way?

If you have, I want you to listen to this podcast interview with Terri. She’s a Love Over Addiction sister, and her story will inspire you. Her brave actions, her boundaries, her change in behaviors truly shifted her whole life.

You can find more details here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/how-to-deal-with-denial/

If you want more free resources when you love someone suffering from addiction, check out our website here: http://loveoveraddiction.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hello, this is Joe. This week on the podcast we have an interview with a woman named Terry and this is a special
0:29.2	interview because it's actually part of a two-part series.
0:35.5	So Michelle and Terry originally spoke
0:38.6	in late 2017, which is the interview
0:42.2	that you'll actually be hearing today.
0:45.0	And then next week we'll have part two,
0:50.0	which is the conversation that Michelle and Terry had earlier this year in 2019.
0:57.0	So without further ado, here we go.
1:02.0	Hey, it's Michelle.
1:05.0	Today, I'm super excited.
1:08.0	This is with a wonderful loving woman named Terry and Terry is a light let me tell you she is just
1:19.3	radiating love and healing and confidence you can tell this is a woman who has done her work
1:28.4	who is taking great risks and let me tell you they've paid off.
1:33.4	She's bold enough to state her boundaries and enforce them.
1:37.8	And she knows when enough is enough.
1:42.3	Today, you're going to hear us talk about divorce for the second time
1:47.0	and how it's never ever too late to create the life that you've always wanted. I found such
1:56.1	amazing hope in this interview with Terry and I just wanted to reach through the
2:01.3	phone and give her a big high-five multiple times.
2:06.0	I think you're going to feel your heart filling up from her
2:14.0	cheering each other on is a huge part of our recovery
2:18.0	and when one of our sisters experiences of victory,
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