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Looking for that instant connection between two people can sometimes take a lifetime. Searching for love should never end up with you losing all your life savings as well as faith in yourself and God. Being vulnerable following her second divorce, BF was mesmerized by all the sweet nothings coming from the men she met on Internet dating sites. Each one of these potential love partners eventually proved to be fraudulent. After believing them, she gave up life as she knew it, ignoring all the red flags warning her, and was forced to pay the consequences.

Because of her background, others expected her to be perfect and solve all problems that she might encounter; however, she discovered that she was not perfect, but instead was human and capable of making mistakes like anyone else. When the world seemed like it was against her, she didn’t give up but instead faced her addiction, embraced the twelve steps of recovery, made a plan to correct her mistakes, and set out to fix them.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; It’s going on when you don’t have the strength.

—Theodore Roosevelt