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If it's B, her apartment will be full, with two adults and two kids.

I always had to be in a relationship.

Only one relationship matters to an addict: the relationship with their drug.

We are still in love with the person who is treating us poorly.

The only person you have any control over is yourself.

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Or perhaps you are always willing to be there to listen when they tell you all about the problems they are encountering as consequences of their addictive behaviors.

That might not seem like such a problem.

And then, and only then, can the chance of real sobriety happen.

So with permission, I gave him Jannie's phone number! You know what ones I am talking about? Lack of attention and nurturing in childhood• Sometimes we can actually even love somebody to death, meaning we can enable them and deny them and cover up for them and lie for them all the while slowly hurting them, right? But while addiction is something to sympathize with and help people work through, it also belongs to your partner, and not to you.

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