The Weight of Living with Addiction

Living with an alcoholic partner rewires your entire emotional system in three devastating ways nobody

talks about. First, you develop hypervigilance. You're constantly scanning their mood,

counting drinks before they finish the first. Second, you lose the

ability to trust your own reality. They say two, you saw six empties.

They promise to stop, then hide bottles in the garage. You start questioning

everything you know to be true. Third, you become emotionally responsible for an

adult. Managing hangovers, covering for work, parenting a full-grown person.

The cruelest part? If you love them hard enough, they'll choose you. But you can't