Originally Posted by
Hawkeye13 
"It's INSANE what one will do to protect an addict. Christ.... "
Yes, it is also astonishing to me how many people
will stick up for / about / with the mistreatment from their addict
until the bitter end.
It gets really frustrating for me at times on this list and I have to step back
and shut my mouth.
I don't always do it soon enough, but I recognize the triggers
mean more work I need to do on me these days.
Progress but far from perfection, I fear. . .
Im having a hard time knowing whether I ought to have just stepped back and shut my mouth with regard to her this time or done what I did... If I did not know the ins and outs as much as I do I maybe could have lived with turning a blind eye-- but I think of these kids like they're my own and it has been SO hard to deal with hearing her woes for a year and hearing her excuses for staying with him and then hearing her say that she would never put her kids in harms way....
I feel like I did the right thing but it does not feel right... if that makes any sense...