In June of 2007, I finally decided that I was done with the relationship I had so intimately developed with the disease of addiction. I had been courted, engaged and married to an entity that had no actual physical body, but it had a spiritual malady that had taken over my life. I had no idea that it was capable of such devastation, pain, manipulation and death, and not just actual death, but the death of my soul. I noticed the change in my heart and the things that I had once cared about, the compassion I once had for others in my life. I found the quality of my life no longer existed and tha...