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Love Over Addiction

You Reserve The Right To Change Your Mind

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever gone back and forth on a decision you needed to make while loving someone suffering from addiction? Maybe there have been days you're ready to pack your bags and leave, only to decide you're not quite ready yet. And guess what? That's okay.

Because here's the deal: you reserve the right to change your mind at any time (and as often as you need).

But when you find yourself struggling with indecision, how do you know when you've finally made up your mind? Tune in to hear this week's episode where I share some personal experiences of going back and forth with decisions (and why it's okay to do so).

Find more here:

https://loveoveraddiction.com/change-your-mind/

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, it's Michelle. How are you doing? How are you today?

0:18.0

Hey, it's Michelle.

0:20.0

How are you doing? How are you today? I wanted to talk to you about a topic that I personally struggle with very very. And although I was married to a really good

0:35.8

guy who still struggles with addiction, I by absolutely no means am perfect, my life is not easy breezy and I still struggle with some really key

0:51.6

co-dependent traits and one of them is making decisions.

0:57.0

Y'all like I'm gonna give you an example of how I'm struggling with this in my everyday life today and then I'm going to talk

1:06.0

about it how it applied to me when I was in love with someone struggling with

1:09.8

addiction. So today I live in an old home. It was built in 19 19 and it is falling apart. It's a disaster like we pray before we turn on the water in the shower because we're not sure if it's

1:27.6

going to be clear or brown because the pipes are like I think they're original

1:34.0

They're galvanized pipes I think the plumber said anyways we can't even get plumbers to come out and fix our plumbing because it's such a terrible job.

1:46.1

So anyways, why am I saying this?

1:49.8

What does plumbing have to do with anything?

1:55.8

We know our bathrooms need to be redone. Okay, like we knew that when we moved into the house because we haven't inspected. I love to, like if I could do life over again, I probably would do something in interior design.

2:10.0

I'd like to think that I'm good at it.

2:11.8

I don't know if I am, but I really enjoy it.

2:15.0

And so I have gone on Pinterest, I've got all these decorating books, and I'm selecting things for redoing our bathrooms.

2:25.0

And we first moved in here about a year ago

2:28.0

and we still haven't started remodeling yet.

2:32.0

And this is why, because I keep changing my mind.

2:35.0

Like I have pulled up, I don't even know. I'm a slightly obsessive compulsive about

2:42.0

research. I will own that but I'm also very

2:44.8

proud of that. It's what makes me good at my job. But I so I've spent hundreds of

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