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Ep190 – Demand what You Deserve

  • May 8, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety, Trauma

If you are the spouse of an alcoholic, you deserve sobriety. But even once your relationship enters sobriety, you deserve more. You deserve a partner who carries his own weight, and is tough enough to…

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Ep188 – Relapse Threat after Rehab

  • April 24, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Recovery, Relapse, Sobriety

The threat of relapse after an inpatient rehab is real, but the threat is coming from more directions than we might understand. Sheri and Matt talk about threats posed by loss of identity, a lack…

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Ep187 – What is Fun?

  • April 17, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Health, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

As a drinker, alcohol was an major component of Matt’s identity. And alcohol also influenced how he had fun. Phrases like, “Work hard, play hard,” and, “You’ll get all the sleep you need when you’re…

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Ep182 – Navigating Positive, Neutral, Negative and Silent Reactions

  • March 13, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Marriage, Recovery, Sobriety

Sheri and Matt react to Amber Hollingsworth’s advice from Ep181 about how the spouse of an alcoholic can respond to the behavior of the person suffering from addiction. Their discussion about their real-life experience demonstrates…

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Ep176 – Why Sheri and Matt Are Not Psychologists or Therapists

  • January 30, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Community, Health, Marriage, Marriagevolution, Mental Health, Recovery, Sobriety, Trauma

The answer to this episode title has morphed over the years from: they couldn’t imagine anyone would want to listen to what they have to say, to: “imposter syndrome,” to: groups are dynamic, to: the…

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Ep175 – Couples Roundtable: The Threat of Relapse

  • January 23, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Communication, Family, Marriage, Marriagevolution, Recovery, Sobriety

Eight loving, empathetic, hard-working alcoholism survivors sitting around a big microphone – it’s a roundtable episode recorded during our winter Marriagevolution Couples Retreat in the mountains of Colorado. Two couples are nearing the end of…

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Ep174 – Reconciling the Joys of Alcohol

  • January 16, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Intimacy, Marriage, Recovering Out Loud, Recovery, Sex, Sobriety

There is no arguing the fact that without alcohol, Sheri and Matt would never have met. It is also an undisputed reality that some of the best times the couple ever experienced were enhanced by…

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Ep173 – Blame Won’t Fix It

  • January 9, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Communication, Marriage, No Judgement, Recovery, Sex, Sobriety

Blame the alcohol, or the alcoholism, but don’t blame the person. We say it all the time. But what if the blame isn’t just something that occurs once the addiction is firmly in place? What…

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Ep172 – Here Comes the Hard Part

  • January 2, 2023
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Community, Family, Health, Holidays, Marriage, Mental Health, No Judgement, Recovery, Sobriety

So you made it through the holidays…well, definitely don’t let your guard down yet. January is really hard in early sobriety, and it is hard for the loved ones trying to avoid emotional relapses. On…

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Ep169 – Unworthy

  • December 12, 2022
  • Tagged as: Addiction, Alcohol Abuse, Family, Gaslighting, Recovery, Sobriety, Trauma

Childhood experiences, including exposure to alcoholism, along with the gaslighting and denials from being married to an alcoholic, have left Sheri facing real challenges battling feelings of unworthiness. Anyone who thinks the loved one of…

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