{"id":1237,"date":"2010-01-11T03:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"1019100948"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:22:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:22:33","slug":"you-don%e2%80%99t-have-an-addiction-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/you-don%e2%80%99t-have-an-addiction-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"You Don\u2019t Have An Addiction Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Is it just me, or does it seem that everything today is now an addiction?\u00a0 We have names for diseases that I\u2019m not all that convinced are diseases.<\/p>\n

We live in a therapeutic society that gives us excuses for being the way we are, rather than understanding that the choices we make and the actions we take determine the life that we live<\/strong>.\u00a0 It\u2019s not an addiction; it\u2019s a choice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We also use the word \u201cmistake\u201d<\/em><\/strong> lightly.\u00a0 When a professional basketball player took guns into a locker room and confronted his fellow teammates; that wasn\u2019t a mistake, that was a choice.<\/em> A mistake is going down the wrong road on your way to the restaurant.\u00a0 A mistake is putting the wrong kind of oil into your engine.\u00a0 A choice is when you do something that\u2019s illegal, immoral, or unethical and then you face the consequences.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This distinction was never more important than it is right now in America, in our marriages.\u00a0 Marriages are breaking up over \u201caddictions.\u201d\u00a0 If a man commits adultery against his wife, he doesn\u2019t have a moral problem, or an ethical problem, he has an \u201caddiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever reason Tiger Woods was driven to do what he did, I\u2019m not at all convinced that it\u2019s as easily fixed as saying, \u201che has an addiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the reasons I think we opt for the \u201caddiction\u201d label is we don\u2019t want to be judgmental.\u00a0 Who among us has the right to cast the first stone?\u00a0 But trust me, that\u2019s not the issue.\u00a0 The issue is this; if we can continue to excuse our behavior, our society is going to continue to fall apart.\u00a0 Our marriages are going to continue to dissolve.\u00a0 The number of children without fathers is going to continue to grow.\u00a0 And without a stable family, without stable marriages, without a home with a mom and a dad in it, children are not going to grow up, to go to college, to enter professions, to earn money, to pay taxes, or support the structure of our society and our standard of living.<\/p>\n

Before you go off to a retreat center and spend money you don\u2019t have, and get treated for an \u201caddiction\u201d you don\u2019t have, stop to think.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s time to just make better decisions. <\/strong> Stay off the internet with the porn, don\u2019t drink to excess, show up for work, be a nice person:\u00a0 simple choices that could save your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it just me, or does it seem that everything today is now an addiction?\u00a0 We have names for diseases that I\u2019m not all that convinced are diseases. We live in a therapeutic society that gives us excuses for being the way we are, rather than understanding that the choices we make and the actions … Continue reading “You Don\u2019t Have An Addiction Problem”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}