Sara21

Hi Karrets,

I'm sorry you're going through all of this turmoil. Perhaps it would be a good idea to focus on you and your relationship with your daughter before starting to date. Is your daughter in counseling? If it's hard for us as adults to comprehend the chaos that addiction brings into our lives, imagine how difficult it is for children.

I think that if you want to be in a healthy relationship with someone you first have to be a healthy individual. I know that for me personally I need to take time and heal from everything I went through with my XH's drug addiction before I can even think about dating again. Otherwise, I'm likely to repeat the same pattern and make the same mistakes myself.