About the author

Marguerite Connelly is the principal and founder of Your Expediter, Inc. The firm, founded in 1995, specializes in the planning and execution of major building developments in New York and Florida. Hers is one of only a handful of women-owned businesses in this field. Marguerite also serves on the Board of the Hanley Foundation, a recognized thought leader in evolving dialogue around addiction on both the local and the national level. She is one of the founders of L.O.V.E., Ladies Oppose Violence Everywhere. 

She is currently enrolled in New York University and has studied at Oxford, Yale and Columbia University.

She currently lives with her partner in New York and Florida.

My addiction

My constant need to stalk my child was not due to codependency; it was pure fear. My actions, I believed, were justified by convincing myself that he was my maternal obligation, and it was my duty to keep him alive. Most of my days—and some nights— were spent ringing his phone over and over. If he didn’t answer, I resorted to driving through dark and dreary neighborhoods looking for him. It was physically and emotionally exhausting, not to mention dangerous.