Un-Becoming Codependent with Stephanie Curtis

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Episode 102

Un-Becoming Codependent

In this episode, I talk with Stephanie Curtis about what it was like to marry young, leave the marriage, and marry again to an alcoholic husband.

Stephanie recounts her days in a marriage where Budweiser was the mistress, and how she made the decision to leave the marriage and work on her own recovery from codependency.

For years Stephanie fought desperately to save her husband, her family, and herself from the overwhelming destructive power of alcoholism, addiction, and abuse. Ultimately, she realized that in her attempts to lift him up, she was burying herself. The only way to find peace and protect her family was to redefine them completely. Now, as a single mom of two, she chips away at the armor she welded on over the years as protection. And hopes her story provides light to those cowering in the darkness of addiction - both the alcoholics and the unseen heroes - the spouses.

Topics include:

Abusive Relationships
Getting married at twenty
Having an affair in her first marriage
Running away from the relationship because she couldn’t take the abuse
Moving in with someone else quickly after leaving her first marriage
Married a man who was an alcoholic - Mr. B.
Seeking help + self-reflection + recovery
Finding help on Instagram through hashtags
Justifying the relationship with her alcoholic husband
Her husband’s behavior when drinking beer
Why you don’t “just” leave an abusive relationship with an alcoholic
Trying to get her husband to recover instead of her own recovery
Telling her husband to leave the home finally in 2018
Surrendering as a codependent
Having the confidence to own who you are
Narrowing your circle - Quality over Quantity as an adult
Fitting In vs. Belonging
Finding Love again on IG

To find Stephanie:

IG: @unbecoming.mrs.b

Podcast: @theresabrightside - releasing on March 1, 2020

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