Relationship Roles When You Love Someone Suffering From Addiction
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
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🗓️ 31 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When you love someone suffering from addiction, we tend to take on certain roles in the relationship. We want to help our partners get sober, and sometimes we find ourselves grasping at straws in order to make it work.
There's never any judgment here. We understand what you're going through and know that you only want to help.
We're here today to offer you tips and tools to navigate your relationship. Today's a good day to be honest with yourself about what's really going on: inside of you, with your partner, and in the relationship.
Make space for yourself to explore, grow, and learn. Be open to what comes. We're here for you. You're not alone. You can do it!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hello everyone. It's Michelle and I'm sitting on my back porch with my dogs. You can hear the lawn |
| 0:30.7 | guy. We are in for us the final week of school for all of our kids and so that's |
| 0:39.3 | exciting for them but I have no idea what I am going to do with them this entire summer. |
| 0:46.2 | We canceled all of our vacations, not that we had a ton lined up, but what are you guys doing for summer? |
| 0:54.0 | Did you cancel everything? |
| 0:55.1 | A lot of people, I guess, are going to the mountains. |
| 0:57.3 | Have you heard that? |
| 0:58.8 | That they're going to like the mountains of Georgia |
| 1:01.1 | or the mountains of somewhere else, some secluded log cabin. |
| 1:06.7 | But I think we're going to stay home. |
| 1:08.8 | I think we're going to hang tight, which summers in Florida are not the best. |
| 1:14.8 | Super buggy, humid, yucky, but it is what it is. |
| 1:20.2 | Okay, so today I want to talk to you about the way you view your relationship with your |
| 1:28.7 | partner. |
| 1:30.3 | And here's what I mean by that. I've said in the past and in some of the programs |
| 1:37.0 | that there are three of you in this relationship. |
| 1:42.0 | There's you, there's your partner, |
| 1:45.0 | and then there's addiction. |
| 1:48.0 | And I consider addiction kind of like a third party, |
| 1:51.0 | a third separate entity. |
| 1:53.0 | It helps me forgive and be compassionate and empathetic to my partner by considering the idea that there is the person that I fell in love with and then |
| 2:09.8 | there's this separate figure in the relationship that represents addiction. |
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