Video: Dating a Person With a Drug Addiction

Dating a person with a drug addiction can appear out of no where and in some cases it requires professional counseling. Learn what it takes to date someone with a drug addiction with tips from the author of a book on dating in this free video on relationship advice.

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The Beatles' song I get along with a little help from my friends, how to tell if your partner has a drug addiction? This is Doctor Paul, author of Boomer Girls: A Boomer Woman's Guide to Men and Dating and host of Ask Doctor Paul. The Beatles song I get along with a little help from my friends referred to drugs. Now, how do you tell if your partner has a drug addiction? It doesn't have to be illegal drugs. They can be prescription drugs. It can be illegal drugs. It can be a drug of choice that may be sort of legal like it's on a special list of legal drugs. You probably won't know from six to nine months. People who have these addictions are very, very good at hiding them. Please believe this, I've had four people call my show, both men and woman, who would tell me, I never had a clue until eight months, ten months, a year, over a year into the relationship. I was shocked. And I found out by accident. One found out believe it or not by finding pills that were in an aspirin bottle, she almost took them. Turned out that they weren't aspirin at all, but the bottle said they were. That person was taking this medication on and on and on. So you won't know. It's not an easy thing to find out. If you once face the issue and there's no way to back out on that person's part, the addicted person's part, go to counseling if this person's important to you and this relationship is important to you. You will not beat it otherwise. Please believe that, no amount of being co-dependent or having understanding is going to make it happen. Trust me on this one. This is Doctor Paul. May your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow.

Dating a Person With a Drug Addiction

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