You and your partner may have wanted to leave each other while addiction was in the picture. But you couldn’t. And you didn’t, at least not permanently. That isn’t because you were naïve or unintelligent or weak or just out and out mistaken. It is because you became attached to your partner and desperately hoped your love would be able to conquer addiction. You were convinced it was just a matter of time and a few nudges from you before your dear one would stop smoking, stop drinking, stop drugging, stop spending, stop texting, stop gambling, stop eating, stop exercising—or stop whatever addiction was consuming his or her life. When it comes to the people we are most attached to, it is human nature to remain optimistic and hopeful that what isn’t working might be fixed with the right kind of effort. Even in the face of something as hope draining as addiction, you can always find a small pulse of hope flowing in the veins of a couple. Isn’t the apropos saying, “Where there is life, there is hope”?