Addicted to the Addict

Jessica Boyer

Director of Marketing

Rocky Mountain Treatment Center

For those of us who go through addiction, it is not as simple as one would think. We spend a lot of time silently wishing, “Why can’t you just quit? Just stop, it is that easy!” Many times, I would ask myself so many questions; however, the most tormenting one that I would ask myself daily was, “Why doesn’t he love me enough to quit? What am I not doing right?”

But the truth, of course, is far more complicated; this is compounded by the simple truth that as difficult as it is for the addict, it is just as chal...