Thanks to Melody for this seminal conversation. I pray the addiction recovery world starts to support partners in these marriages. Pathological – adjective Pathology implies a person’s inability to 1) Change or consistently sustain positive changes 2) Grow to any meaningful emotional or spiritual depth 3) Develop insight about how his behavior negatively effects others
I am so glad another partner friend introduced me to the work of Patrick Teahan! Along with Tim Fletcher’s YouTube videos, Teahan is in a superior class of professionals focusing on the issue of the lasting effects of childhood trauma. He is funny and extremely insightful. Below are the favorite Teahan videos my sister-friends and I have unearthed so far
Counselor. And we have one! Thank you, Jesus, for coming to us and carrying our brokenness so that we might be reconciled to God and blameless in His sight! THIS is the good news we need. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows Isaiah 53:3-4
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Marriage. What is it? Is it all rainbows and unicorns? Should we never show who we really are, what we really feel? Is our spouse supposed to be the “best friend”, the one we share our hopes and dreams with, the one who sees us in all our glory AND in all our messiness? Did we spend decades with someone whom we thought was that person only to find out that they weren’t that person at all? And now, now…