My husband is a drug addict.That really throws a wrench in my plans for a picture perfect, white picket fence, beautiful life. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not so naive to believe that sans addiction I’d be living that dream either. It’s just not reality, and I get that. However, this is much (MUCH) messier than I’d anticipated.Let’s start at the beginning. When we met, I knew that drugs had been a part of his past, and even that he dabbled some at the time. I thought it was recreational, an

What Addiction is: A primary, chronic, disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations, often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic impaired control over use, preoccupation with use, use despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking – most notably denial. Addiction is not a symptom of an