My story is one that is like many others out there, right? I was successful at sales, I had a booming career, and the money was great. And at times the money and the happiness just seemed to flow with the market. Well maybe not for everybody.
You see the pains of family life set in, more so than that actually. My marriage was failing. My kids, it had a heavy impact on them, which I tried to deny. This trauma of relationships carried further though. It happened around the time my parents died... And it made me question a good bit of who I was... An identity crisis, PTSD, "Who am I and what is my purpose here?"
I started living as the victim of the situation again... I found myself in a cycle of unhealthy relationships because I had based my happiness on how others acted towards me. It took a long time, but I came out of this dark period... It wasn't without challenges though. You see, I had inherited some money from my parents, and it turns out that money was not the solution that I thought it was going to be...
This isn't the first time I have found solutions seemed to come about... I had gotten (and am) clean and sober when I was 17, not necessarily by choice, but my family had laid the path of recovery for me, and I got to see the addictive patterns that I had belonged to at the time. And once again I saw that I was repeating these types of relationships. For example I was always judging my ex...