When Addiction Steals Your Friendships

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

When we love someone suffering from addiction, we can start to become isolated. We may feel so wrapped up in our loved one’s issues, that we start to lose our joy, our friendships, and the things that really matter to us.

When I was married to a good man that suffered from addiction I was lonely. So. Lonely. I remember longing for real friendship, and even being jealous of ‘friends’ I saw on social media posting pictures about all their girls’ trips.

I let addiction steal my joy, including my closest friends. I was so wrapped up in my ex-husband’s issues, that I lost everything else that mattered to me.

And this is all too common. Addiction wants us to feel lonely and powerless.

In today’s episode I share a personal story about finding (and losing) friends, and most importantly, what you can do today if you’re feeling lonely.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, before Michelle dives into teaching, I need to say that towards the end of the
0:26.3	episode there's a little bit of spicy language that's not appropriate for young
0:30.7	ears. So if you need to grab a headset or listen a little bit later when you're
0:38.0	alone, I just want you to know that's coming.
0:42.0	Hey, so can we talk for real? Like I mean, I want to talk about something that most people don't talk about.
0:51.0	Today I want to talk about addiction and friendship and
0:56.7	and since I ask you to be super vulnerable with me I will give you the same respect and go first. So here's the truth. There
1:08.9	was a time in my life where I was not good with female friendships. So you know those type of
1:16.4	women who have like a thousand million friends and who go on nine different girls
1:21.6	trips per year.
1:23.7	If you look at their social media,
1:25.8	you see every other pictures with a group of women
1:28.8	and most likely they're different groups of women
1:31.7	every time.
1:33.0	They might have like red solo cups in their hands in the pictures
1:38.0	or look like they're laughing about an inside joke that you'll never know about.
1:43.0	If you're like me, you wonder,
1:46.0	where did these women meet?
1:48.0	How did they get invited to this dinner,
1:51.0	or brunch, supper, or book club. You may judge their outfits or think
1:57.3	to accuse them of being fake, but secretly you're jealous because a part of you knows this is kind of the friendship you want.
2:08.0	Maybe your vision of a friendship doesn't look exactly like a yoga retreat in Napa, but what appeals to you is a group of
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