Would you date an ex-addict?

[theoldmanfromup]

Musing after a recent date. Met someone who seems great. Incredibly attractive, funny, seems kind and spiritual.

But they had a long history of addiction to prescription drugs (including opiates) and some class A and B recreational drugs too.

Clean for a year, and had been a "functioning" addict.

Would you even go there? And would you tell them why not, if not?

No way. I wouldn't say why though.

He shouldnt even be getting with people at 1 year it should be like 5 years before a relation.

A year seems a suspiciously round and significant length of time.

If he really had been clean for a year, I would be ok with it, but tell him if he touched drugs again it'd be over, and if there's anything that seems like signs of being off his tits I'd be very suspicious, and probably dump him.

I'm now 40, but when I was 18 I fell in with the wrong crowd and got hooked on heroin (smoking, not injecting) I came from a loving family and they were all distraught and done their best to get me out of it but I ended up sleeping rough and had a bad three years, I ended up on a methadone programme, got clean after a year and now married and have three daughters to my husband who I met when I was 22 and I was honest and upfront with him from the start, so I suppose what I am trying to say is yes, you can give someone a chance, I was in the lowest place you could be but people can change.

No.