Loving Her Without Losing Me: A Mother’s Journey Through Trauma, Addiction, and Unbreakable Love

What happens when the child you love most begins to disappear into addiction?In Loving Her Without Losing Me, Allison Marie Payette shares the raw, heartbreaking, and deeply personal story of loving a daughter through years of addiction, trauma, and chaos - while learning how to survive as a mother in the middle of it all.This powerful memoir follows Allison's journey from a young mother raising a bright, beautiful girl to facing every parent's worst nightmare: watching the child she loves slip into a world of drugs, abusive relationships, jail, and loss.Through years of fear, sleepless nights, and unanswered phone calls, Allison wrestles with the questions so many parents silently carry: How do you keep loving your child without losing yourself? How do you hold hope when everything feels broken? How do you keep going when your heart is constantly at war between love and survival?Blending deeply personal storytelling with insight into the emotional toll addiction takes on families, Allison gives voice to the pain, guilt, anger, and relentless love parents of addicts experience every day.This book is for anyone who has ever loved someone battling addiction.Inside these pages you will find: - A brutally honest look at addiction from a mother's perspective - The hidden trauma parents carry behind closed doors - The strength required to love without enabling - The reality of living with constant fear and hope - A reminder that you are not aloneLoving Her Without Losing Me is a story of grief, resilience, and the fierce love that never stops fighting - even when the path forward feels impossible.

Pagina's: 364, Paperback, Independently published