“ Eventually, the addictions intersect and then double back on each other until everyone involved is spinning around in a tangle of calamity — grabbing and clawing, retreating and hiding. But no one ever escapes.”

I come from a family of addicts. I’m the only one who doesn’t smoke or drink. You never really escape it. You can’t. Unless you make decisions based on your choices. I went to an Al-Anon meeting once and never went back. I’m 61. I haven’t had a ‘intimate relationship’ with anyone since 2004, the last time I had sex was 2011, an hour of pure pleasure in Europe with a girl I met at a hotel — and no, she wasn’t a prostitute.

I’m going to send the link to a friend of mine who is going through the same thing you are at the moment.