The scariest part of loving someone in their addiction is realizing you can’t love them out of it. I remember the night that truth hit me. I was sitting on the edge of the bed, begging him to stop drinking — begging him to love us enough to stop. I thought if I just said the right words, cried hard enough, or showed enough pain, it would finally reach him. It didn’t. Because addiction doesn’t respond to love — it responds to consequences. And that’s what no one tells you when you’re the one hold