Susan Cheever — American Author born on July 31, 1943,

Susan Cheever , an American author, is a prize-winning best-selling writer well known for her memoir, her writing about alcoholism, and her intimate understanding of American history... (wikipedia)

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.
Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.