My Husband’s Addiction is Killing Me

In my experience working with women in unhappy marriages, the topic of their partner’s addiction has become increasingly common. In this episode, I tell the story of my client Shelley* whose partner struggles with an addiction to alcohol—but in fact, that’s not the whole story. There’s something else going on. You’ll hear the possible wounds beneath addictive behavior and how we might take action inside a marriage plagued by addiction—with both kindness and compassion, for ourselves and...