Comments on: Loving An Addict http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/loving-an-addict/ OH, DON'T GET ME STARTED!! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Sharon Tate http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/loving-an-addict/#comment-423 Sharon Tate Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:13:58 +0000 http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-423 Just wondering if you are still blogging privately and would love and invite if you are. Your words captured me, and I could not stop reading and check back from time to time. I am now clean after 6 yrs of methadone maintenence, so I can relate. Please email me and let me know if you still are writing, I admire your strength....Tate55745@netcape.net Just wondering if you are still blogging privately and would love and invite if you are. Your words captured me, and I could not stop reading and check back from time to time. I am now clean after 6 yrs of methadone maintenence, so I can relate. Please email me and let me know if you still are writing, I admire your strength….Tate55745@netcape.net

]]> By: Pammy Girl http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/loving-an-addict/#comment-190 Pammy Girl Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:27:12 +0000 http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-190 I remember those feelings. A good friend and a roommate were going through addictions to pain killers and alcohol at the same time. I knew things weren't right but I had no idea how out of control the situation was until it was too late. Illegal drugs came into my home, my prescriptions following my major surgery disappeared, bills didn't get paid, weird behavior, lots of missing items. I was a mess for several months. I finally cut off the friendship with one person... she wanted me to break into her ex-boyfriend's office. That was the final straw. The roommate and I parted ways. She got arrested for tampering with a prescription and wound up in rehab. Addiction IS an awful was to live. I remember those feelings. A good friend and a roommate were going through addictions to pain killers and alcohol at the same time. I knew things weren’t right but I had no idea how out of control the situation was until it was too late. Illegal drugs came into my home, my prescriptions following my major surgery disappeared, bills didn’t get paid, weird behavior, lots of missing items. I was a mess for several months. I finally cut off the friendship with one person… she wanted me to break into her ex-boyfriend’s office. That was the final straw. The roommate and I parted ways. She got arrested for tampering with a prescription and wound up in rehab. Addiction IS an awful was to live.

]]> By: Kelly http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/loving-an-addict/#comment-187 Kelly Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:56:43 +0000 http://ocdiva.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-187 Thank you for sharing and for your response to my comment. I have protected my family as much as possible by letting every one think that we were normal and everything is going so well. I feel like I am walking a fine line between what is real and what I so badly want it to be. Today, I survived and I am tired as hell. Hopefully, the elusive sleep that my body is craving will come easy tonight. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this site. I am reading stories that only I thought I understood. I did not think anyone else out there would endure so much for love. My head knows that regardless of what happens from this point forward I am in a better place by myself. At least I have some chance at what I crave so bad from my life---being normal. Normal is not dreading another day in your life Normal is waking up to a solid foundation. Normal is a life filled with things that you like to do. Normal is being with a person who completes you, brings out the best in you and makes you better than you could be alone. I am holding on to these words for myself because I cannot fathom things being this way for me. Addiction is an AWFUL world to live in. Thank you for sharing and for your response to my comment. I have protected my family as much as possible by letting every one think that we were normal and everything is going so well. I feel like I am walking a fine line between what is real and what I so badly want it to be. Today, I survived and I am tired as hell. Hopefully, the elusive sleep that my body is craving will come easy tonight.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this site. I am reading stories that only I thought I understood. I did not think anyone else out there would endure so much for love.

My head knows that regardless of what happens from this point forward I am in a better place by myself. At least I have some chance at what I crave so bad from my life—being normal.

Normal is not dreading another day in your life
Normal is waking up to a solid foundation.
Normal is a life filled with things that you like to do.
Normal is being with a person who completes you, brings out the best in you and makes you better than you could be alone.

I am holding on to these words for myself because I cannot fathom things being this way for me. Addiction is an AWFUL world to live in.

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