One thing to have a good time. Mike Caussin marked a giant milestone in his battle with intercourse dependancy — and thanked Jana Kramer for nonetheless being by his facet regardless of a number of the darker moments.
“As an addict I carry numerous disgrace. Others who share an identical illness can relate. We not often like to discuss it not to mention acknowledge it,” the previous NFL athlete, 33, wrote in a considerate publish shared to his spouse’s Instagram account on Monday, December 28. “However this Thursday I have a good time probably the most sober yr of my whole life. I’ve had my stumbles and falls over the past 4 years on this program however this yr has lastly been totally different.”
Caussin acknowledged that the strides he’s made prior to now yr wouldn’t have been doable “with out lastly permitting myself to lean into others, lean into my spouse and lean into God.” Whereas he didn’t intend to earn “consideration, sympathy or congrats,” the Virginia native hoped to “categorical humility” about his struggles and be a supply of assist for others going by means of an identical battle.
“As human beings and particularly as males we are able to be taught to be susceptible, we are able to permit others to assist us once we want it,” Caussin wrote. “So, perhaps going into this new yr we are able to all lean into one another a bit extra. It’s our selection whether or not we wish to stay divided or collectively. So, provided that selection, why would you wish to be divided? We’re all totally different and that’s what makes us the respiratory miracles we’re. Let’s select to embrace that in 2021.”
The retired tight finish and Kramer, 37, married in Might 2015 and welcomed their first youngster, daughter Jolie, three months later. The duo separated in September 2016 after Us Weekly broke the information that Caussin had cheated. Throughout their time aside, the athlete obtained therapy for his intercourse dependancy. They later reconciled and renewed their vows in 2017 earlier than welcoming their son, Jace, in November 2018.
In March 2019, the “Why You Wanna” songstress revealed that her husband suffered a “huge” relapse in his dependancy the yr earlier than. Throughout an episode of their “Whine Down” podcast, Kramer clarified that whereas Caussin “wasn’t bodily out of the wedding” on this explicit occasion, he nonetheless did “one thing he shouldn’t have completed” that “might have been terrible.”
The drama didn’t cease there for the couple. Earlier this yr, the One Tree Hill alum obtained a DM on social media claiming that Caussin had as soon as once more been untrue.
“The explanation why it caught me off guard was as a result of the very first time I discovered Mike cheated on me was by means of a DM,” Kramer defined on her podcast in October. “I feel — I advised my therapist this — I nearly have this bizarre PTSD the place I’m going by means of my DMs, nearly trying to see if the reality is gonna prevail within the DM once more. I’ve this concern once I undergo my DMs. … The actually sucky factor about it’s that my default can’t go to ‘There’s no method.’ That’s the place it hurts probably the most, the place I can’t simply go, ‘I belief him 1000 %. He would by no means do this.’”
On the time, Caussin admitted that he was “crushed” that Kramer couldn’t discover a technique to belief that he’d improved.
“It sucks that I’ve completed what I’ve completed prior to now to create that in a relationship proper now,” he stated. “My hope is that years down the road, if one thing like this occurred once more, she’d be capable to carry it to me and we’d nearly be capable to, like, snicker about it as a result of there’s that a lot belief within the financial institution. However I didn’t fault her in any respect for questioning me for nonetheless attempting to determine these items out.”
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