addiction

What I do know is what it is like to be the wife of an addict, and those years taught me to claim responsibility for addictions that aren't my own. Thankfully, while that is still my first instinct, I have come far enough now to pause and remind myself that I am no one's caretaker. I am not responsible for my ex-husband's addiction, and I am certainly not responsible for Macklemore's.

The more I told him that something hurt me, the more that he did it.

Six months after my first benzodiazepine prescription, I was in a personal tsunami, a surge of water so deep I could barely see.