Wife Of An Alcoholic: Recovery | Loving An Alcoholic | Codependency| Michelle Lisa Anderson

There is so much debate these days about leaving or staying with someone who’s addicted.  Everybody has an opinion. Your mom, your therapist, the guy who wrote that book, your pastor. But do you know who I think has the most judgmental opinion about the choice to leave or stay with the one you love who is struggling with addiction? You.   You shame yourself for wanting to leave.   How could you break up the family?   How could you even dream of wanting something different?   You said forever and you tell yourself that breaking your promise would make you a quitter.   You may doubt that anyone else would ever love you.   The idea of ever being with another partner makes you sick.   Or finding love again with someone else makes you excited and then you really feel ashamed.   You don’t know how much longer you can take this.   What if they never get better? Or what if things get worse? You see all your friends and family and you think how nice it would be to be loved by a stable and thoughtful person. I remember