The question to ask yourself is if you are an addict for life or living with addiction? I prefer living with addiction because it allows you to live with it but not let it control who you are. O come from s family with multiple addictions in the course of a few generations and they have learned to deal with them and live a life after full blown addictions. Mine is silent. No one knows. It is mine to deal with so I am in a position to avoid letting it define me in the family. I dont waht to be the aunt with the gambling in the family tree. To me using the term addict for life allows for the perception that it was out of control for the duration of your stay on this earth. Living with addiction means that you are doing just that- living and having the monkey take a back seat. I’m.in the driver seat at this point do I’ll be living with it but not necessarily enjoying its company.
Its semantics, I know. Maybe part ego as well. I live with my issues, all of them. Gambling is merely one
