When I was in active addiction, it was easy to stay firmly in denial when my life was going to shit. I didn't have the depth of awareness that things were bad or getting worse or the worst they had ever been.
I was too busy just trying to survive. This is true regardless of whether my addiction was to substances, a love interest, or work.
These days, I can live in a place of denial for a very short while if something is not going right in my world, but then the truth starts to whisper in my ear. Then it gets louder.
Finally, it screams. So for a while, even though I'm hearing that we have a problem, Houston, I ignore the issue for as long as I can.
I don't like it. But the longer I am in recovery, the shorter those periods of ignoring things get.