Originally Posted by
cynical one 
How many more addiction related peaks and valleys do you have left in you before you just give up and succumb to living the life of an addict without ever touching the drug?
That really reached out and grabbed me. Even after I got clean/sober, I spent 13 more miserable years engaging in active codependent behaviors that brought me a great deal of pain.
I've seen women who finally 'succumb', and they are bitter, old, and tired beyond their years. There just is no fight left for a better life for themselves.
I thank God that I did hit a bottom, and fought like hell to climb back out of the pit and start my recovery from codependency.
I will no longer be held hostage by someone else's addictions.