When Your Partner Has an Addiction: How Compassion Can Transform Your Relationship (and Heal You Both in the Process)

Your partner’s addiction takes a toll on both of your lives. That doesn’t mean you should turn your back on the person you love.
We’ve been told that staying with a partner who struggles with addiction-whether it be with drugs, alcohol, or addictive behaviors-means that we’re enabling their destructive behavior. That wanting to help them means we’re codependent, and that the best thing for both of us is to walk away from the relationship entirely. But is that true? When Your Partner Has an Addiction challenges the idea that the best chance for recovery-for the addict and their partner-is to walk away. Instead, it makes the revolutionary claim that you, and the love you have for your partner, can be a key part of his or her journey to recovery.