A woman two years sober raised her kids while her partner kept using drugs. Her paranoia and feeling gaslit weren't her fault, the counselor says, but the result of him being unable to match her honesty and growth.
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You all met high. Mm-hmm. So you all don't know each other. Mm-hmm. Right. And you spent 2 years where you were sober and were raising your kids and you were still on drugs. Yeah. And so now that you're sober, I realize that the reason you've been paranoid this time and feeling like you're gaslit is because you were with a man who was still on drugs. And so through your sobriety, you were wanting him to match your conversations. You were wanting him to match your honesty. You were wanting him to match all these new things that you were going through and he couldn't match it. And so you were getting caught into this cycle of, well, you know what? Like, I feel like I'm going crazy. It's not that you were going crazy. He just was on drugs.