Removing The Cloak of Addiction
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
When you love a good person suffering from addiction, it can sometimes feel like the light or sparkliness that's inside you has dimmed. Can you relate?
This can happen when the cloak of addiction covers things up around you and your loved one struggling with addiction. And with the holiday season right around the corner, it can be incredibly stressful.
But here's the thing: you're not powerless. As you know, you can't get your loved one sober. But there are things you can do to start and feel powerful and in control of your life again. There is absolutely a way to come out on the other side of this.
So, how do you remove the cloak? Tune in to this week's episode to hear some helpful tips for getting back to a better place in your life (regardless if you stay or leave). You've got this.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey guys, how you doing this week? I know that the holidays are approaching. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey guys, how are you doing this week? I know that the holidays are approaching and I also know that |
| 0:27.4 | they can be incredibly stressful not only because of all the responsibilities that come around holidays, the |
| 0:37.2 | presents, the baking, the school stuff, but also let's just be real it can be really depressing when you |
| 0:46.8 | love someone suffering from addiction and you hear the Christmas Carols on the |
| 0:51.3 | radio telling you how happy and jolly we should all be and things don't feel happy and jolly. |
| 0:59.0 | I remember many years ago how one Christmas actually was the Christmas that I decided, okay, enough is enough, |
| 1:11.0 | I'm getting out of this marriage. |
| 1:14.0 | My ex-husband, we woke up Christmas day |
| 1:18.0 | and I had actually gotten the stomach flu the night before. And he had wrapped all of the presents and left |
| 1:25.8 | notes for the kids and it was really really beautiful and I was thinking oh we're |
| 1:30.3 | turning a corner you know he's finally going to participate. |
| 1:34.2 | You know, he's going to sober up, he realizes how much our family means to him, |
| 1:38.8 | and he's going to get sober for me and the kids, |
| 1:40.8 | and this is going to be a great year. And that morning the kids and I woke up and we went into |
| 1:50.4 | the living room and there was all these great presents that he had wrapped and then in the |
| 1:55.7 | middle of wrapping them he said he got a call from his |
| 2:05.0 | keys and he'd need to leave and grabbed his keys and took off. |
| 2:08.0 | And I was like, wait, what, what? |
| 2:10.0 | Like where are you going? |
| 2:12.0 | And he's like, oh, there was an emergency at the |
| 2:14.0 | office I need to go. And I left my laptop at the office and we lived like 40 |
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