Katie’s Story, Chapter 14: Traveling the road to addiction with someone you love is hard. How can you trust them again? How didn’t you see the signs? Should you stay or should you go? It’s hard to separate the disease from the actions.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 13: It’s hard to imagine the person you love most in the world would steal from you. I can remember the feeling of falling to the floor when I realized my husband wasn’t who I thought he was.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 12: Relapse is what I feared most when I learned of Kemmon’s addiction.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 11: Addiction is so isolating. Not only for the addict but also for those around them. I am so thankful to have found friends with the same shared experience to help me navigate my life of hell.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 10: I could now breathe a sigh of relief; my husband went to rehab.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 9: After years of driving under the influence, Kemmon got in an accident with a semi and was taken to jail.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 8: After the car wreck so many things happened. Multiple trips to the ER, the impound lot and my first trip to a pawn shop. My life had gotten so much worse and I was numb.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 7: I called 9-1-1 and he told them to get out of our house. I started to pack my bags and told his sister to come get him because something was wrong. She found his prescriptions and realized he had taken 48 pills in two days.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 6: He got into a car accident and told me not to come pick him up. Of course, I went to go find where he was. He wouldn’t get in the car and jumped into a car I wasn’t familiar with. I tried to follow them with no success.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 5: His family showed up at the ICU. I was numb from the years of him being a total asshole and lack of sleep from the hospital stay. His family saw how mean he was to me and I contemplated divorce.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 4: He was admitted into the ICU where we stayed for three days. I had no idea he had just nearly died from an overdose.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 3: I was on my way to a meeting and had a sinking feeling I needed to get home. I’m so glad I did.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 2: After a friend moved away, Katie finally started to see her marriage was falling apart. She didn’t know this was the start of one of the worst times in my life.

Katie’s Story, Chapter 1: How it all started. I thought I had done everything ‘right’; go to school, get a job, get married, and live happily ever after. That was not what happened. This is the start of my story where I find out my husband had a secret drug addiction.

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