When addiction takes over your spouse's life, living with them can be excruciating and distressing. Despite the promise to stay together through thick and thin, a partner's drug or alcohol use can make it difficult to love and be around them. They may become unresponsive and selfish and may even hurt you in many ways, both physically and emotionally.  Let us look at what it takes to be the spouse of someone struggling with addiction and stay in such a relationship.