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Love the Addict So Hard it Hurts

If I had a magic wand, I would skip March 16th every year from now until forever. On that day in 2014, my family received the call that my younger,…

The first time I tried alcohol I was in eighth grade. I snuck out after my parents were asleep and walked around the pond to a neighbor’s…

I miss you. I imagine you hugging me in my mind. I close my eyes, and I breathe you in. Your smell, your whiskers brushing my cheek, the way you…

I was a single mom when I met my husband, and my daughter and I fell head over heels. Within six months, the words “I do” made us a family of…

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,…

I don’t usually make resolutions, but it’s been an unusual couple of years for me and my marriage. Two whack years, after which…

The death of a young person always takes my breath away; there is nothing more unnatural than a child or teen losing his or her life…especially…

Loving an addict will consume your every thought. Watching his physical deterioration and emotional connection to everything will make you the most…

Mourning the death of your parent while they’re still alive feels so wrong. Why is this a thing? Why am I going through this? Lord, I’m praying…

It was a few weeks after my husband and I had separated. I was driving over to his aunt’s house, his temporary residence, to drop off our…