Practical Tips For St. Patrick's Day When Your Partner Drinks Too Much

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We are a sisterhood bonded together by the fact that we love a good person that suffers from addiction. We all know that holidays can be hard. Any small holiday can be the perfect excuse for your loved one to drink more, smoke more, use more, or do more of whatever it is they’re addicted to.

St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, and small holidays like these can be the perfect excuse for your loved one to have an extra drink, smoke more, or do more drugs. Whatever type of addiction they struggle with, addiction usually takes any chance it can get at a little “extra”.

Today on the blog we have 5 practical tips you can use for St. Patty’s Day + a question from the community + advice from our community for the upcoming Irish festivities.

We’re smart women. We do our work ahead of time to be prepared for potentially sticky situations. If you’re ready to make changes, find new ways to cope, and implement some practical tips today, you’re going to love this episode: https://loveoveraddiction.com/practical-tips-for-stpatricks-day/

If you're ready to join our community, we're here for you. We have free tips and advice, free guidesheets, and online programs. Find more here: https://loveoveraddiction.com/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, so today we are going.
0:29.3	So today we are going to take a question from one of the women inside our secret Facebook group and I love this question because St. Patrick's Day is right around the
0:38.1	corner and you guys know that I'm constantly telling you get a plan and get prepared for major holidays because typically
0:49.0	drinking drug use addiction tends to be at an all-time high around specific days of the year, usually
0:58.1	holidays. So even if they're saying to you I'm going to be sober or they've been sober for a long period of time now,
1:06.6	I want you to still have a contingency plan, have a plan be in place because if you are prepared then best case scenario you have a
1:19.3	plan that you never had to use but you have peace in your heart and in your mind that you are in
1:25.8	control and that you've thought this through. If the worst case scenario happens, then you can go, okay, I know exactly what I'm going to do because I've
1:35.7	given this the space and the energy and the thought and the care to be prepared.
1:42.3	And you guys, I love you, and this is part of being a responsible woman
1:49.0	when you love somebody suffering from addiction.
1:52.0	If you are planning on staying, then this is part of the
1:56.4	deal. This is what you've signed up for. So this is part of your work.
2:03.0	Now, I'm not just going to give you the advice,
2:06.0	and, I'm not going to give you the advice to like get prepared and then not help you out
2:11.0	because that's just wrong and cruel. So I'm going to be
2:15.6	answering this question about St. Patrick's Day. I'm going to be giving you
2:18.7	some helpful tips but also we have some incredibly wise women in our community and they have some helpful
2:27.1	tips too for you.
2:29.4	So this is going to be a good podcast to you guys.
2:31.6	I'm really excited for it.
2:32.8	There's a woman I've been coaching for her and her husband made the incredibly brave choice to get
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