WHAT TODAY ME WOULD TELL ME 15 YEARS AGO
I started blogging because when I first realized the Beast my husband's alcoholism is, I felt there was no raw, honest place for me to...
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wrenrwaters
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
What's Wrong With Me?
It's nearly 4 o'clock in the morning and I am hiding in the bathroom of a hotel room while my kids sleep. We are on our way home from a...
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wrenrwaters
- Jun 5, 2021
- 2 min
Do You Define Yourself By What You're NOT?
Have you ever been talking with someone and suddenly, words come out of your mouth that you didn't even know were in you? Revealing a...
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wrenrwaters
- Jun 1, 2021
- 2 min
In Case You Are Wondering....
You do deserve more. Even if he stops drinking. Even if he does an inpatient rehab. Even if he goes to AA. Or some other program. Even if...
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wrenrwaters
- May 27, 2021
- 3 min
What If We're Not Really Broken
I have felt broken for a long, long, long, long, LONG time now. Being married to an alcoholic will do that to you. Break you. Gut you....
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wrenrwaters
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
It's Saturday Night At 2:00 am...
There is a woman crying somewhere because he's drunk again. And he's in jail. Or he's passed out. Or he just finished calling her vicious...
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wrenrwaters
- Mar 30, 2021
- 3 min
You and Me? We're The Good Frog
I remember so clearly the very first night the gravity of my situation hit me. My husband had been in an ugly-drunk mood that evening and...
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wrenrwaters
- Mar 20, 2021
- 2 min
Did He Ruin Your Life?
I think it's fair to say that an alcoholic or addict-husband can ruin a woman's life. I know my alcoholic husband ruined mine. The happy,...
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wrenrwaters
- Mar 11, 2021
- 3 min
Do. Something.
I am in the processing of editing my book, "Leaving 101: How To Prepare To Leave Your Alcoholic Hus band - Even If You're Not Ready To...
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wrenrwaters
- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
TO THOSE IN THE MIDDLE
I remember many years ago, when I published my first book, "The Alcoholic Husband Primer: Survival Tips For The Alcoholic's Wife," I knew...
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wrenrwaters
- Feb 19, 2021
- 4 min
NOW WHAT?
I think about this blog a lot even though I obviously don't blog a lot. The truth is I have been struggling with what direction I should...
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wrenrwaters
- Feb 7, 2021
- 3 min
This Is For The Woman Up At 2:00 am
It's been a long time now, well over ten years, but I can still feel that night as if it had been yesterday. Where I was sitting. The...
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wrenrwaters
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
I Just Want To Cry (Or Why I Don't Blog Regularly)
Writing a blog doesn't sound hard. In fact, one would not be faulted for thinking, writing is writing - be it a book or a magazine...
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wrenrwaters
- Jul 3, 2020
- 1 min
It's Hard Sometime To Reconcile...
Genuine.riend of mine was in town the other day. When we met for lunch, she handed me an envelop full of old photos she had found while...
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wrenrwaters
- Jun 24, 2020
- 2 min
I Can't Sleep
It's 5 o'clock in the morning and I can't sleep. In about 30 minutes my husband will be getting up to go to work. And when he asks (if he...
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wrenrwaters
- Jun 1, 2020
- 2 min
My Apologies
I referenced a reader who had contacted me and that message had inspired me to get back to writing. I referred to this reader-friend as...
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wrenrwaters
- May 31, 2020
- 2 min
That Devil of a "Little Voice
My plan was to transition away from my first blog - "quietragingwaters" - which was completely alcoholic-centric to this blog. That was...
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wrenrwaters
- Mar 18, 2020
- 3 min
I'M GOING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU
Not that I was ever lying or going to lie...to me that's always felt like such an odd way to start a conversation with someone, "I'm...
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wrenrwaters
- Feb 29, 2020
- 2 min
What Are You Allowing To Keep You Small?
I love that it's February 29. I love it because I will always remember today as The Day I Finally! Figured It out. It being that one...
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wrenrwaters
- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
WHAT ABOUT ME?
I got a message from a woman - I'll call her "Susie." Susie described how her alcoholic husband positively desecrated her life -...
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