[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Maru

I don't envy anyone with an addictive personality. It's a terrible problem to have and to overcome.

That said, I'm not sure what the cheating bf has to do with anything. She's a grown woman, surely she's been through worse in her life and he is slight turbulence in comparison.

I think maybe things like that act as triggers, rather than it being solely because of it. It looks to me like she's never really 'recovered' (I'm not sure if many people fully recover from an addiction) but maybe she found ways of coping, and relying on her relationship might have been one of those ways. Ideally it wouldn't be and she'd be able to be strong enough in herself, but perhaps she just isn't/doesn't have that ability? I don't know, it's really sad though. I think we'd all like happy endings to things like this and you hear about certain people turning their lives around, but I think some people just can't get past their struggles, I don't necessarily think that's a 'fault' of theirs, but a weakness they can't do much about because it's innate maybe? I'm just conjecturing really, I don't know much about her personally, and I kind of hope I'm wrong and that she's able to move past it at some point.