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When I was young, I truly believed that love could save anything. As long as I had love, everything would be okay, and that it did, indeed, conquer all.

This was before I was in love with an addict.

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I know that I’m a love addict, that I care about finding someone and being in love more than I care about figuring out my life for myself. I know that I have serious attachment issues.

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You start to forget who you were before you met them, and you don’t care.

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Addiction is a brain disease that, through a series of biochemical mechanisms resulting from repeated behaviors, creates an overwhelming, animalistic urge as pressing and intense as the bursting bladder.

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We spent the whole day together, and I knew something wasn’t right. I should’ve forced you to go…somewhere. 

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I saw the same thing in my dad’s eyes and when I saw glimpses of his soul. 

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When I stopped using drugs to suppress my emotional pain, I had to start the long process of learning how to manage life without substances to help me.

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The monsters in your mind are making you think we are conspiring against you. But we are rooting for you.