HH, I'm so glad my story gives you hope. Five years ago, STBXAH and I had an infant son (plus my daughters from my first marriage), and I was being emotionally abused just as his relapse was escalating to a place where I had to acknowledge it was actually a relapse. I had already become a person I couldn't recognize...begging my abusive husband not to leave me, after I discovered evidence he had "made a female friend in a bar" while working out of town, and he turned the whole thing around on me. I do not even recognize the person I was back then.
Much love to you, HH.
