You're listening to the podcast in order, we are going to take a little bit of a

break this week from learning about covert aggression.

And the reason is, is because I had a topic come up that I really, really wanted to talk to you about.

So for those of you that follow me on Instagram. You guys will remember I went and spoke on a panel in New York

City a couple weeks ago and it was absolutely fascinating.

I loved it so much.

It was a wonderful experience that I was scared to death of.

But I managed it.

And it was a beautiful setting with a room full of women who are suffering and going through a divorce because they love someone that has a problem with addiction.

And the panel of experts were all people that were, I mean,

amazingly impressive, right?

We have a professor who teaches a class of Columbia, we have a woman who is a psychologist, a lawyer, a mediator. We had litigators in the office. I mean it was it was massively impressive and one of

the takeaways and I got so many takeaways from this experience, but one of them was this.

None of the experts who were absolutely brilliant people and had tons of insightful information to share with

those women, none of them had experienced loving someone suffering from addiction.

And so their advice was incredibly powerful, and I shared some of it in our secret Facebook group live.

But here's the butt and this is the reason why I wanted to do this podcast.

Although their information served the audience so well, there was some of them that gave advice that would be terrific for the typical divorce,

but not terrific when you are dealing with the bully called addiction.

Addiction will do anything to get us cornered in a room and scare us so that we will back down from asking

for what we really need and what we really deserve. It will use desperate attempts to intimidate us and will go to very scary, scary lengths.

And sometimes very well-meaning experts do not understand this.

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