A Real Life Story About Supporting Your Children Through Addiction

12/01/19 • 63 min

Today we get to hear a real life story from a brave woman in our community. Her story is absolutely amazing, and we talk on big topics like letting go of codependent behaviors, supporting children through the chaos, and how to handle it when one child is extremely loyal to their father. Truly, she’s found peace and happiness whether he’s taking pills (and drinking) or not.

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Join the community: https://loveoveraddiction.com/

Connect personally: https://www.instagram.com/love_over_addiction/

Previous Episode

How Taking Care Of Your Partner Suffering From Addiction Is Actually Hurting

When we love someone suffering from addiction, our relationships aren’t ‘normal’ by any stretch of the word.

We can take on strange roles that we never imagined before, like taking care of our partners like they’re our children.

Can you relate? Do you find yourself reminding them of appointments? Picking up their laundry? Cleaning up their messes? Driving them places? Making all their food?

There’s no shame here. We’re a judgment-free community. And I found myself in this exact position when I loved a good man that suffered from addiction.

I thought I was helping, but I was actually hurting.

Find out how to let go of acting like their mother, and where to put that energy and effort instead.

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Next Episode

How Letting Things Fall Apart Can Actually Help

For years I played the role of the fixer and mender. I held it all together. I was the glue. Without me, my ex-husband and his addiction would fall apart.

I thought if I could just run around and excuse his behavior, clean up the messes, hide the evidence, fib to his boss, it would all be okay eventually.

Can you relate?

Well, I was wrong.

Once I learned what I should actually be doing, I dropped that exhausting role of trying to be the glue.

Instead, I let it all go. I let it all fall apart. Everything. I stopped fixing. I stopped lying for him. I stopped covering. I stopped downplaying.

And here’s the thing: it actually helped. I know, that may sound crazy, especially if you’re in the thick of playing this fixer role.

Listen to find out how letting it all fall apart can be the most helpful thing you could do for your partner (and yourself).

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