Sound advice for wives of addiction that doesn’t include, “RUN!”
(Unless they’re straight-up crazy. In which case, Girl, get those demons out yo’ house!)
I LIKE THE PEOPLE AT CHURCH WITH TATTOOS
Hello, I’m Leah Grey.
I have never wanted to be some kind of addiction-guru; hair-guru is more like it. You want to know what cut is going to most flatter your face shape? I’m your girl. You want to know what to do at 3 a.m. when your husband hasn’t answered the phone and he’s taken $300 out of your joint account? No, thank you.
But there I was- talking about addiction while my husband went to rehab. Again.
I applied for jobs for four months. Like, all the jobs. Even Tim Hortons. That’s a lie, I didn’t apply anywhere with a button uniform, I have Koumpounophobia, an irrational fear of buttons. Yes, it’s real. Steve Jobs has it, too.
After being gracefully “let go” from my stylist position (where I worked for free on commission) and applying for all the buttonless low-wage jobs I could find, I finally submitted to defeat… and started a blog.
Surely, blogging would help bring in some income. I could inspire people! But underneath it all, what I really wanted was to find someone else like me. A normal girl who had a normal life and suddenly found herself in a mess far beyond her control.
12 years and 500,000+ yearly visitors later, I found a few.
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No One Brings You a Casserole When Your Husband Goes to Rehab
“This book is gut-wrenchingly honest about the rollercoaster of loving someone with an active addiction. However, if you've already experienced what that's like, then it'll feel refreshingly relatable instead of just plain sad. It's comical, dare I say whimsical, and the lightest piece of literature you've probably ever come across on the topic of addiction.”
-Amazon Review, April 27, 2022
About me
• Leah is my real first name. Grey is a pen name. It means nothing- I was wearing a grey sweater.
• I lived in the New York City area for just short of a decade before moving back to Canada.
• I published my first book in 2022; It was an Amazon #1 bestseller in the first week! (shameless plug)
• My website is under construction. Mostly. Slowly. I’m getting there. Life has been chaotic lately and I’m a one-woman show at the moment.
• Yes, there is another book coming. It’s called, Dear Fish. It was done, but then I scrapped it and started over. Creative agency.
• I recently married “The Fish” from my first book. Ooh, la, la! (Now there’s a story!) If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you need to read the book.
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Book Review: No One Brings You a Casserole When Your Husband Goes to Rehab
“This is a story about hope. It’s a captivating story of hope in the face of shame, insecurity, anxiety, failure, addiction, codependency, marriage crises, spiritual warfare, abandonment, rejection, grief and disappointment. It’s also a story of faith, trust, persistence and forgiveness. But the most powerful message of the book is that it’s a love story. A love story between a struggling couple and their loving heavenly father. If you need a reason to be hopeful in your life, you won’t be able to put this book down.”
-Grant Mullen M.D., Author of Emotionally Free