Archives for May 2012

His Emotional Ambivalence, Squared

One of the things that I find comes up in coversations with wives over and over again is the issue of a husband's ambivalence towards his recovery.  On the one hand they seem to say, "Yes, I'm sorry for what I've done, and I don't like the consequences of it." and on the other side, their actions (or lack thereof) seem to say, "But I don't want to give it up--it feels too good, it's become too important to me".  The wife finds herself in an excruciating state of frustration.  While he seems to be giving lip-service to what he knows to be right, Continue Reading