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Gender: F
Age: 38
State: BC
Country: Canada
Experience...
My soon to be ex-husband is addicted to heroin. We had a happy, normal family 5 yrs ago. We had 2 young sons, both of us employed. Now he lives in homeless shelters. It started w/ painkillers. He also started smoking crack when I was at work. He went from percocet to dilodid. Household items started disappearing, money out of my account, our kids money, jewelry etc. I at first thought I was imagining things, he was so good at lying. He got up to 6 dilodid at a time just to avoid being sick. He then went to shooting dilodid, 1 at a time because it was cheaper & worked better. I quit my job, packed up the kids & moved away for a short time.
I cut ties, moved in with what turned out to be the love of my life. My new guy allowed my ex to stay w/us to dry out but booze, items etc started disappearing again. We think he still breaks in & steals our truck. There is no reasoning with this disease, no winners. All you have to lose is absolutely all that you hold dear. Its` a losing battle. [473]
Gender: F
Age: 21
State: n.y
Country: u.s.a
Experience...
hey whatsup, im 21 years old and i have an addiction. Not ur typical addiction, its not to any type of medication or street drug like heroin or crack, its an addiction to lust. Now i know it may sound kinda dumb, but to me its just a big deal as if i was hooked on cocaine or alcohol, its also a dangerous one and sometimes i fear for my life. I always think of the consequences of my actions, as far as STD`s, HIV/AIDS, and the fear of being raped. Just the thought of me gettin to that point with a dude and @ the last minute wantin to back i think of how he can get mad and wantin to take it from me. So far it doesnt sound like an addiction, but here`s where i get to that. I know i have low self esteem, i`ve had it since i was 10 years old. Like most kids i was teased and picked on a constant daily basis for somethin very common, a birthmark, on my face. it was ok for me but to other kids it was weird and ugly. Some thought it was contagious and didnt wanna come near me others thought it was weird and thought it was funny to talk about. N-E-ways for four years i went thru life thinkin i was ugly, weird, and wonderin why god made me this way. But finally @ 14, the teasin stopped because i finally "blossomed", i got hips, booty, and breasts, and finally boys started to notice me, and i loved the attention, but i still didnt feel beautiful, i knew they only liked me cuz they liked my form fittin jeans and v-neck tops, but i thought as long as they notice me who cares. Years later i became pregnant by a boy who i thought i was in love wit and i thought loved me, but 3 weeks after my son was born he broke up wit me, and i felt the only way to get another dude to love me was to give him what every dude loves, my sex. I thought since they chose to do it wit me that meant i was special, yet i didnt feel that way after it was over. So i ask myself if i kno i`ll feel that way after its over, "why do i do it?" cuz as much as i regret it afterwards and tell myself not to do it again, i find myself fallin into the same lines dudes throw @ me and then i feel if i dont give it up they wont like me. I even find myself goin back to the same dudes that hve treated me wrong and basically played me to my face. I kno a lot of that has to do with my low self esteem, but another part haas to deal with the fact that im very hard sastisfy and i continue to sleep with different men to find the one that will bring me to orgasmic bliss, and not treat me like sh*t afterwards. I hope and pray that one day i`ll find someone like that and i`ll be able to love myself for wh i am. [427]
Gender: M
Age: 52
State: FL
Country: USA
Experience...
I was married 23+ years to someone addicted to prescription drugs. The addiction was both psychological and physiological. When the physiological addiction part was overcome there was still that psychological aspect which always lingered... it was more of a problem than the physiological addiction... because it always caused her to get back into it. My wife passed away under the influence of drugs while I was at work one day.
23 years... and I couldn`t help her overcome it. [113]
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