Reclaiming Yourself

Loving someone with an addiction can slowly pull your life out of shape — your time, energy, identity, and sense of choice. This category focuses on returning to yourself: rebuilding steadiness, agency, and meaning, even when the situation hasn’t resolved. Not reinvention — reclamation.

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Reclaiming Yourself

Why Loving Someone With Addiction Is So Exhausting (And Why It’s Not Your Fault)

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If loving someone with an addiction leaves you deeply tired in ways rest doesn’t fix, there’s a reason. This article explains why the exhaustion is real, cumulative, and understandable, and why it isn’t a personal failure, weakness, or sign that you’re coping badly or loving incorrectly.