How I Moved On From A Toxic Addiction To A Healthy Relationship | Acknowledge

This is the first step to liberating yourself from a toxic addiction and turning it into a healthy relationship. If you want to know how my journey started, you can check it out here so you can follow along.

In the previous post, I have already mentioned that I had a bad habit of smoking. When I started, I was very confident that I was going to just try it and that I wouldn't be addicted. That's actually the worst thing you can ever think of when you try something new.

When you try something for the first time, you can never be too confident that you will only be doing it once. That confidence will give you a false sense of being in control. Sure, you will be in control the first few times, but then, you will eventually have the urge to do it again until you start craving for it.

The first step when you want to get rid of your toxic addiction is to actually acknowledge that you have one in the first place. This may be easy to say but it's really the hardest to do. It is human nature to be in denial when we have to admit a bad trait. We will always come up with excuses as to why we are doing certain things. However, we should also realize that it's harder to come up with a million excuses for our bad habits than to just admit them.

To recover from your bad habit, you need to admit that you have one. You also need to know that you don't need to do it alone. We all know that there are many ways to find support when recovering from addiction. It may not be obvious to everyone but the best people to help you through that are the people closest to you.

In my case, it was my partner that helped me through it. I started my addiction when I was in college and my family found out but I always tried to hide it from them. I still haven't admitted it to them until now. Therefore, I was ashamed to admit it to my family but I was able to admit that I had a problem to the one person closest to me.

I knew that I wasn't going to be able to do it alone because I knew that I would make excuses for myself. I told my partner that I needed to think of a way to keep myself accountable. I needed a way to stop myself from that bad habit so that I can live a healthier life.

I also had to admit that I was only wasting my hard-earned income for something I knew was unnecessary and was even bad for my health. I understood that my addiction was turning people off because of the smell. I had to admit that aside from spending what I have, I had to make double the effort to hide the smell and get rid of the aftertaste it left on my mouth.

After admitting all of those things, I started to gain the resolve that I should finally quit. I started to bet on myself.

If you want to get the TLDR version of this guide, you can get it for less than a pack of cigarettes here. Otherwise, I will describe the next step which is to bet on yourself on the next post.

Thanks for reading my story. I hope you have a good day and see you in the next post!