I’ve started to see an addiction as something that, “Fills a deep longing in my heart.” That’s why it’s hard for me to let go. It’s hard to release. “Why doesn’t he just stop drinking? Can’t he see what it’s doing to his family?” Not really, because it’s got a lot of power. It’s meeting a huge need in his life. Again, we’ll talk about that more, here, in just a moment. This pattern of reaching—of anesthetizing the pain, of filling the hole my heart—it begins, also, to create a conflict with others,