What To Do When Your Partner Is Mad At You

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been doing a series all about types of aggression and tactics used. Because here’s the truth: When we love someone suffering from addiction “normal” advice doesn’t cut it for us. We need something more specific, because loving someone suffering from addiction is NOT a normal relationship.

We’ve talked about how to handle your anger before, but what about theirs? Do you know how to respond when they’re getting nasty and mean? Are you sure they’re actually angry, or are they using this as a tactic to manipulate you?

These are big questions that you may not know the answer to right now, and that’s okay.

Tune in to hear real life examples so you can start to recognize these patterns in your own relationship.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, so I'm excited to continue with our series on covert and passive aggression.
0:27.1	And for those of you that are new, I'm taking my information from a really helpful wonderful book I highly recommend it's called
0:35.6	In Sheep's Clothing by Dr Simon and we are talking about the ways that the ones we love who are suffering from addiction can be
0:47.4	manipulative and aggressive and this is not at all to place blame or convince you to leave your relationship.
1:00.0	This is about informing you, about the tricks that addiction tries to play on you.
1:06.0	I think most of us believe that we are in a relationship with a really good person
1:12.0	and they have so much are in a relationship with a really good person.
1:12.8	And they have so much potential, right?
1:15.9	That's why you fell in love with them,
1:17.3	because you are a smart person
1:19.5	and you don't just fall in love with someone
1:22.0	who has zero potential.
1:25.1	You want to believe the best in them, right?
1:27.2	You want to believe that if you loved them enough and they loved themselves enough that they would change and they could finally
1:36.1	live at 100% of the person that you believe they were created to be.
1:41.8	And so let's assume that all of us know that. On the other hand, there is a
1:50.0	dark side to this disease and it can bring out the worst in people, right?
1:56.0	One of the ways that it can bring out the worst is by anger,
2:07.6	give them getting angry with us specifically, and that's what we're going to talk about today. I know the word anger is a trigger word. I know that it brings, makes us feel uncomfortable, particularly as
2:16.5	women because we like to walk around with smiles on our faces and pretending that everything's
2:21.6	okay. We like to pretend that we don just chill or we're cool or we're too kind to
2:23.2	we don't get angry and that we're just chill or we're cool or we're
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