You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Today we get to hear a conversation between Michelle and a woman from our community.

She's sharing her personal story about loving a good man who suffers from addiction.

And as you may know already, we're a judgment-free community, which means we welcome every woman, regardless of her background, her situation, or her personal beliefs.

The woman that Michelle is talking with today was brave enough

to share and get super vulnerable with us. So let's send her ultimate love and acceptance and

let her feel the safety of this community.

Okay perfect. So I want to say thank you first of all for agreeing to talk with me.

I am so grateful that you are willing to share your story.

Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for trusting me with it.

So let's go from the beginning, when did you first meet your husband and when did you know,

when did you first start to see that there were problems?

When did the red flag

Well, when I met him, we both drank too much.

I had, you know, I was just like, had such low self-esteem and just, you know, and just met him and I was like, I knew

it wasn't a healthy relationship really but he wasn't mean he wasn't abusive

we would just drink together he was happy you know so I kind of knew like that it was problem, but I never saw any signs of like anger or violence or abuse or anything like that until I got pregnant with my first child and his mom passed away.

He started, because when I met him, he was a beer drinker

and was happy.

And then when his mom passed away he started drinking vodka and I just

like the devil came out in him and he would even say that like he was like the

devil is in this house I mean it was just it was really it was really bad it was

really scary but that's when I was when I noticed that you know there's some dark

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