I never changed while i had something good.
She'd look at me and i was done. I 'did' show her how i felt for her but i was (am) an Alcoholic, and she knew. So she tried a wake up call, took everything i loved out of the ten yrs. Pfff wasn't even close to the bottom of my addiction with Alcohol that went on another 7yrs or so.
Love is powerful indeed, but it has a hard time with a negative addiction.
Think on... :-)