If everything is a lesson or happens for a reason, what did you learn?
I have been thinking about this the past week or two when I was hoping that my ex made the right decision to accept inpatient counseling. Today is the first day that I feel much more free from being attached to that hope. But then it led me to thinking (not productively I'm aware) that if he doesn't make that choice, what good came out of this? I mean, I nor anyone else deserves to go through the hell of addiction but if I saw that he got help, at least something good came out of it.
So I ask, is there really a lesson (positive) to be learned here for the ex-partners of addicts aside from learning about co-dependency? I'm really interested in hearing what others have to say as there are so many insightful posts here