Two Simple Lessons When Your Partner Suffers From Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

When we love someone suffering from addiction, it can be hard to see the light of day. Our once very accurate judgment and perception is now being manipulated into something else.

I remember feeling so lost, thinking, “What is actually going on?” I felt crazy. Have you ever felt like that?

As I started my own recovery and healing, I discovered that there are little tools and tricks that I could use in those moments to find clarity. To remind myself that I’m actually not crazy.

I used these tactics day in and day out when I was married to a good man suffering from addiction. So today I share two simple lessons with you that I was reminded of when my ceiling caved in a few weeks ago.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the you a heads up.
0:19.0	Hi it's Joe and before we dive in this week I wanted to give you a heads up that Michelle recorded this podcast episode as a video.
0:30.0	So if you hear the audio sounding a little bit different than usual, that's why.
0:35.0	And if you'd rather just watch the video, you can head over to our YouTube channel
0:41.0	or you can check out our main blog page at love over addiction.
0:47.0	com slash blog. Okay enjoy.
0:52.0	Hey this is a weird angle and the lamp looks like it's coming from my head, but I don't care.
0:58.0	And let me tell you why I don't care.
1:00.0	Because as you guys know, I bought a new home, but it's not new. It's actually a hundred years old.
1:07.0	And I know that when you buy things that are 100 years old, they're most likely not in the best condition.
1:17.2	But so far we've lived here three weeks and we have I'm going to show you guys we have leaking,
1:25.0	leaking in my daughter's bedroom last night
1:29.4	that completely ruined the ceiling.
1:33.0	And she's about to come home from camp at college tomorrow.
1:38.0	This is perfect timing.
1:40.0	We have a dryer and a washer that were finally hooked up and then I put the clothes in the dryer last night and went to go get them out and they were still wet and realized that there is no gas
1:56.8	hookup and I have a gas dryer. We have no AC on the second floor and we live in Florida in the summertime. It's July.
2:10.0	Oh, we found out this morning that we had rats in the attic. Our
2:16.7	term exterminator guy, I was called him Terminator. Exterminator guy came and told us
2:22.4	this morning that he found poo, rat poo in the attic.
2:29.2	So it's going well. We are completely in love with this house. Actually, I'm jot, I am in love with this house and here's
2:37.4	what I wanted to share.
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