Hi Evelyn
I am so pleased you wrote your first post even though it was so very difficult for you.
The first thing I want you to do is to stop blaming yourself, there is no book to tell you how to cope with this addiction when it comes uninvited into your life and until there is, friends and family will enable because the addiction is the master of manipulation.
This is a very short reply but I wanted to get let you know as quickly as possible that you were being heard. I will write again tomorrow and hopefully support you more constructively.
I would really like for you to come into a Friends and Family Group – they are on Tuesday and Thursdays between 19.00-20.00 UK time. We could communicate in real time; I always feel it is like we are sitting together chatting with no holds barred.
Velvet