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Love Over Addiction

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Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

So here's the deal…. for years I have been sending you letters and recording podcasts of encouragement and love (with some helpful tips) because I think of you all the time. Seriously. Every. Day.

And I have grown to love you. So, as your loving friend, I would like to give you a kind nudge and ask you this:

If you have not joined the programs...what are you waiting for?

Because I know you so well, I have an idea why you're not joining me, but I won't go into that right now. Instead, I will list some of the reasons you SHOULD join us:

  1. If the one you love doesn't get sober, you STILL need to recover.
  2. If they do get sober, you could send them back into relapse if you don't start your own program and learn how to deal with all the past yuck.
  3. You have been so focused on trying to get them sober, you have forgotten about learning the tools to take care of yourself.
  4. You need tools. This disease is not normal, so normal "techniques" that work in "typical" marriages don't work.
  5. If you're thinking about leaving or staying, work your program first before you decide.

There are a dozen more reasons why joining our programs could be the BEST thing you've done for yourself.  So please... take the leap of faith and make yourself and your feelings important.

This is the place to find encouragement and love. This is where the healing begins


You can do this! I am right here beside you reminding you – even in the worst of times – you're not alone. I know how you feel. Put your healing first by joining one of our programs and see how much different your life will be.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the wife of an alcoholic podcast. So here's the deal. For years I have been sending you letters and recording podcasts of encouragement and love

0:27.3

with some helpful tips because I think of you all the time.

0:33.2

Seriously, every day I'm thinking of you.

0:37.0

And I have grown to love you.

0:39.7

So as your loving friend, I would like to give you a kind nudge and ask you.

0:47.0

If you have not joined one of the programs, what are you waiting for?

0:53.0

Because I know you so well.

0:56.0

We are so similar, our stories have lots of common threads.

1:01.0

So I have an idea of why you're not joining me,

1:05.6

but I'm not even gonna focus on that right now,

1:08.9

because instead I'm going to list some of the reasons you should.

1:14.0

Number one, if you love, if the one you love doesn't get sober,

1:20.0

you still need to recover.

1:24.0

Number two, if they get sober and you could send them back into relapse

1:30.0

if you don't start your own program and learn how to deal with all the past yuck and worry

1:37.4

that they will drink again. You know that feeling when they say they're going to get sober

1:42.1

and you wait and you wait for the other shoe to drop.

1:45.6

It almost is like waiting for the bubble to burst.

1:49.0

You walk around on eggshells just praying and hoping that this time is going to really be the one that works.

1:56.0

We need to do something about those feelings because that anxiousness is not healthy and

2:02.4

it's not the only option you have.

2:05.0

Number three, you have been so focused on trying to get them sober

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