Originally Posted by
ananda 
I struggle with some of the hatred of addicts and alchoholics that i hear, even when it is coated with the disease is what we hate not the person. My disease is part of who i am..it isn't controling me at the moment, but it may at times.
I am not a different personn from who i was before i got sober...any more than anyone else is a different person from who they were 2 years ago, cause of course we are all always changing.
Thanks Ananda! This is exactly why I came over here - references to my husband as "The Addict" or "Addict-husband" were driving me nuts. It seems like some people objectify a person in addiction. Maybe it make it easier for some people to deal with it that way, seperating the person from the addiction, I don't know, but it really bothered me. He, like you, is not a different person now, he is himself, with a problem.