When the drinking became a problem, when it started affecting our marriage, our family life, there were many lies, empty promises, from my husband in how to fix the addiction situation. He did not refer to it as that or even that there was a problem. That is his attitude, who he is–if there …
There is this unspoken connection between Justin and his boys from Hazelden. One I have to honestly say, as a wife of someone in recovery, I’m a little jealous of. To see them talk about the hard stuff, share the stories of the life inside those Hazel walls, to laugh–I mean really laugh–the laughs that bust your …
When my husband went to treatment at Hazelden, my amazing friends and family reached out with messages, calls, cards, flowers, snow removal, running my kids to and fro, meals (because I don’t cook), encouragement, hugs (even in co-vid). Don’t get me wrong, I appreciated ALL of it, but at the same time, felt guilty, and …