addiction

I have recently been told that I have an addiction.  I think that people may be staging an intervention.  I have questioned if it is bad to have an addiction. 

I don't really have much experience with addiction.  When I worked at the residential treatment center for teenage boys some of my kids had drug and alcohol issues.  To be honest, they were not the kids I dealt with most.  My specialty there was working with the sex offenders.  When I ran the domestic violence shelter I had some clients with alcohol issues and also a few with meth issues.  But that was not my focus.  My pain focus was dealing with the abuse issues and helping the clients figure out how to get their lives moving in the right direction.  I don't really know anything about addictions.

But I have been informed that I have one.  And I need to deal with it head on.  Actually I have been told that I need to go cold turkey.  Just remove the offending thing from my life.  Get rid of it.

I don't want to.

Which just proves to the accuser that I really do have an addiction.

So what is my addiction?  Cafe World. The Facebook game.  Seriously.  I am up to level 396.  I have friends who at higher levels.  I am not the worst offender.  But I have created an alter ego Facebook account -- just for the purpose of playing.  I also have the passwords of 3 other Facebook accounts (a friend, her alter ego, and her mother) so that I can log on and send gifts to my account.  It helps.  I get to finish things quicker.  I log on to all every day.  It helps.  And yes, I know it sounds ridiculous.

Now my friend has threatened to shut down her Cafe.  And the Cafes of her alter ego and mother.  She thinks I should delete my alter ego.  And delete my Cafe.  But I like my Cafe.  I don't want to give it up.  I did try not to log on to all 5 accounts today.  I failed.  I logged on to all.

So do I have an addiction?

Mean Mama