Here is a short, punchy excerpt designed to grab attention on social media, in your newsletter, or right at the top of the article preview before the full piece unfolds: > "When one partner is locked in an active addiction and living a secret life, true emotional intimacy cannot exist. You cannot have a real relationship with someone who is hiding a core part of their reality. What many people discover they were living in wasn't a partnership at all. It was an arrangement." >

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