The letters in this book really do exist, and each is

quoted by permission of its author. Many of those whose letters

are used herein have expressed gratitude for what they have

received from reading WWL2M. These thanks, while gratefully

acknowledged here, have been consistently edited out to avoid

redundancy for the reader. Some further editing has been done

for the sake of clarity and conciseness as well as to protect each

author s identity.

The letters and responses have, of necessity, been sorted

into chapters dealing with specific subjects. However, many of

the letters contain multiple questions and problems. Since dis-

eases of addiction, including relationship addiction, tend to

overlap in real life, they do so in the letters as well. For instance,

the topics of alcoholism and coalcoholism, sexual addiction,

incest, compulsive eating and recovery may all be addressed in

one letter. Thus any arbitrary sorting of these letters is just

that--arbitrary. For this reason, do not expect the content of

each letter to be either as narrow or as unequivocal as the

chapter headings might suggest.

In answering each letter, 1 am drawing on fifteen years

experience in the field of addiction and nearly a lifetime of loving