a post by Christine Hammond for The Exhausted Woman blog (via World of Psychology)
Angel came into counseling knowing that something was wrong but not knowing what it was. After being married for seven years, he noticed his wife became more secretive and distant. Money from their savings account was missing and unaccounted for, his wife would disappear frustrated and return weirdly happy, and she seemed to get angry very easily over insignificant matters.
At first, he thought she was having an affair. But after looking at her phone and locations, he ruled that out. So he sought the advice of a therapist. Oftentimes when a spouse is hiding the severity of an addiction, the only evidence of it is the way they talk about it. An addict lies to themselves and others in order to justify continuing in their addiction.
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The final paragraph really got to me. Staging an intervention and getting help for your addict will only work if your addict wants to be helped.
I've heard most of those 20 lies and several that weren't in the list.
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