How do you accept and live with the fact that your spouse is an addict?

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durbanpoison

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why not just bail and find some new younger guy... worked for my exwife...

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porsher	Posted Nov 19th, 2009 at 5:54AM What kind of addict are we talking about? my stepfather was a drink addict and gave all of us a hell of a life and if a drug addict i'd be gone otherwise the next thing you know you're dragged down with them. Rated: +1Vote for this!
takethesebrokenwi ngs	Posted Nov 19th, 2009 at 2:36AM Thankfully I don't have to do either. I think though at the point that I married someone that them having an addiction wouldn't change anything. I'd want them to get help and I would try to support them through anything they would be going through. Rated: +1Vote for this!
uralba	Posted Nov 19th, 2009 at 2:39AM Move on it wont get any better. It will only drag you down. Life is too short Rated: +1Vote for this!
seacrets	Posted Nov 19th, 2009 at 2:41AM With great difficulty and lots of stress, always suspcious of every move they make, practice tough love all the time, I feel sorry for you and understand, wish I could say something good, it wrecks your life at the end of the day. Rated: +1Vote for this!
GenevieveRouge	Posted Nov 19th, 2009 at 2:51AM My mom wasted 34 years of marriage with an addict, it didn't work out, the only good thing that came from their relationship was me...ha oh and my brothers and sister. Rated: +1Vote for this!
WittyOne	Posted Nov 21st, 2009 at 1:23AM Doesn't really matter if you accept it or not, what is, is. I would not suggest living with it though, it is unhealthy and destructive for you and your children, if you have them. If your spouse will not get help to get clean and sober, you need to get out Rated: +1Vote for this!
dollyd	Posted Nov 20th, 2009 at 8:16PM well for me it was kinda simple,for i am and addict and he too.But the games began I took my sobriety more seriously than he did-and we went to WAR.I love my x-husband dearly,but he knows now they seriousness of being clean & sober.Accept that person for he is-and addict,but you yourself needs to get educated,because without education you no not what to look for-THE GAMES. Rated: +1Vote for this!

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