Loving an addict turned out to be the best decision of her life

This is the most personal conversation I have had on this show. Mia is my wife, and for the first time she talks about what my recovery actually looked like from where she was sitting.

The drinking, the drugs, the relapses, the broken trust, and then the gambling underneath all of it that she could not see. She is honest about the loneliness of being the person who stays, and about the boundaries she had to hold when staying stopped being enough on its own.

We spend the back half on trust: what actually rebuilt it, how slow that was, and why the hidden nature of gambling made it harder than everything that came before.