All Addictions Destroy Relationships — Even the One in Your Hand
It’s not just alcohol. Not just drugs. Not just gambling or porn or food. Addiction wears a thousand faces. Sometimes it looks like a wine bottle. Sometimes a vape. Sometimes it looks like your phone — glowing softly while your partner talks to you and you don’t hear a word. Addiction is Anything You Use to Escape Real Life. And when you’re escaping… You’re not connecting. You’re not being present. You’re not loving. You’re not listening. You’re not healing. You’re avoiding. What Addiction Feels Like in a Relationship: Your partner repeats themselves. You weren’t listening again. You promise to stop drinking so much… until Friday. You say you’re “just checking something.” But you’ve been scrolling for 40 minutes. You numb out with food, weed, shopping, TikTok — anything but the real, raw feelings. You get defensive when they ask for time, for affection, for help — because you’re running on empty, addicted to escape. It’s not that you...