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subwaythru -> RE: Substance abuse (8/12/2010 7:42:39 PM)
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Well, looks like you've come to the right place with your question. The awareness and support I see here has kind of taken me aback.
It's a subject with the potential for ghastly tragedy. I stand here as living proof of the horror that a human being can survive, as a result of another person's drug abuse. I'd bore ya all with my story, but it is goddamned painful and has been publicized to death. I protect my anonymity nowadays. My story is really so hideous and it is surprising how many people have such inquiring minds that not only want to know, but insist on it. Let's just say I have issues with the media and the public who support the slimesuckingoff of misery and personal catastrophe.
How does it work to be involved with a person who has substance abuse issues? Well, for me, here's how it worked: I lost my family, my children, my marriage, my husband, my home and family farm, my business, my life savings....hell, I lost everything but my cat, my car, a half a tank of gas and thirty seven cents in change, because of my own codependence and insisting on sticking out the relationship to the end. And believe me, I mean the living end. The addict stopped at nothing, and I mean nothing, to get the drugs he thought he needed.
Think, and then think again. If they have a substance abuse issue, like it or not, it's going to become your issue, too, for the rest of your life.
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