Is Your Betraying Partner an Asshole?
Fantastic article on the topic. You’re welcome! 🙂
Addiction 101, Part 11: Control and OCD
After reading the title of this post, you probably wanted to skip over it – BORING snoozer. Well this topic is anything BUT boring. Hang onto your hats, Sisters. Do you like mystery, thriller stories? One of the most popular genres of horror films is the who-dunnit shock thriller where, at the very end of the movie, you find out the bad guy was the person you least expected!! We find this entertaining because it’s so hard to believe. These…
Addiction 101, Part 10: IA and RCs
One of the most awkward and painful experiences for a parter healing from betrayal trauma must be attending weddings. We see the groom pledging his undying love and commitment to the giddy, believing wife. “I will always be there for you. I will serve you. I will never tire of gazing into your eyes. Every morning I will make you coffee and every night I’ll let you cry on my shoulder.” It’s even more awkward when you’re trying to help…
Addiction 101, Part 9: Narcissism and Predators
Especially in the early days of recovery, I consumed an unbelievable amount of resources! Books, podcasts, online conferences, etc. Even in that vast sea of information, sometimes, years later, a random quote from a random podcast can sound in my head and answer a hundred questions. I was listening to a podcast from a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. One survivor said “I think when a person has been perpetrated against, a touch of that perpetrator energy can be inside…
Addiction 101, Part 8: Parts and Dissociation
In Megyn Kelly’s memoir, she tells a story from her teen years of complaining to her dad one night in December as he sat by the Christmas tree. Her parents couldn’t afford her class ring, and she was upset and stormed off to bed. That was the last time she saw her dad because he had a lethal heart attack that night. Megyn was behaving as a typical adolescent – obsessed with self and peers. Teenagers don’t understand making financial…