I am open to advice on how to view this, but I am really having
a hard time with my husband’s choice to smoke cigarettes. Obviously smoking is an addiction and an
unhealthy one at that. I understand addictions are hard to stop, and Josh had
made the decision to stop smoking before, but now he justifies his choices by
claiming that it helps him. I have gone
over and over the risk factors and how that isn’t fair to me or our family if
something should happen to him due to these (in my opinion) selfish choices. I also fail to see how an addiction is helpful. To those who know my background, I had a struggle
getting off my pain medications after my car accident. I very easily could have continued in taking
the narcotics claiming they helped me deal with the pain, but in truth I was
aware of the addiction and fought to lose its control on me. I know I shouldn’t but I have a hard time not
being judgmental as I know he could cut the addiction if he really wanted as he
has done so before. I feel that his dependence
on the cigarettes is a weakness and he refuses my help in quitting his habit
that I silently despise his choices and take them as a personal offence that he
chooses the comfort of his addiction over the health of himself and his
family. I have been begging him for the
last year to show me affection and when he finally does I have a hard time
returning the intimate touches or kisses when I smell the smoke on his clothes
and breath. I feel like every day I have
been betrayed because he is choosing himself over the greater good. I especially feel it is not fair in this
sense: for the last three years I have
been pregnant or breastfeeding meaning I am super conscious of what I am taking
into my body as it affects the child I am carrying or nursing. Just because Josh does not carry a child
inside him, does not mean he should not have that same sort of caution. He is teaching habits and if I can smell the
smoke on him, so can our kids. Even just
breathing in the smell is considered dangerous, especially around
newborns. He is considerate in that he
doesn’t come home just reeking of smoke, but there is no hiding such an icky habit. I don’t know how to get over feeling it as a
personal attack as obviously I feel it affects me and the children. He has cut back, but at the moment seems to
refuse quitting. I feel it is especially
unfair as before we were married I was very clear about making sure this would
never be allowed in my home, and although he doesn’t smoke at home, it still
comes home with him. Any advice?
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