Old 05-18-2016, 03:54 PM
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fgh55
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Originally Posted by alcoholics wife View Post
Sometimes educating yourself with alcoholism, drug abuse, codependency, etc. really gives a lot of insight to a very difficult situation. Often we find ourselves in terrible relationships and end up the victims but there has also been lots of studies and information out there if you just look about women with similar situations as yours. We too have a big part to play, it does take two to tango. Many strong, confident, happy, independent women would just run at the first signs of alcoholism, abuse, infidelity, drugs. Why do we stay, and keep staying time and again? Why is it that we keep lowering that bar when once upon a time certain things were a deal-breaker? More importantly than to find a solution of how to change him, working on yourself to become the best you is key.
Thank you for this. I know I have played a role in my own misery. I would like to understand what is happening with me and why I am constantly lowering the bar so to speak. Love shouldn't feel this way. I don't know when I stopped being able to say no. I don't know when I started putting others needs before my own. That's part of why I feel lost. I do need to understand. I will look into some books, or some help. I need to do some serious work on myself.
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