Living With An Addict
Overview
What you need to know about Living With An Addict:
- Rock Bottom: Although popular wisdom tells us that people need to hit a personal rock bottom before deciding to get help, research says otherwise - People who get treatment earlier do better!
- Enabling: Although we naturally want to help those we love avoid problems, when we make excuses and cover for the behaviors of addiction, we make it much easier for those we love to continue truly hurting themselves.
Heroin Addiction in the Family - Supporting Change
Six effective ways to help a treatment-ready heroin user that you love make positive changes - what to do and how to help.
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Love & Recovery: Rebuilding a Relationship
Recovery brings a lot of changes and upheaval. Couples can grow and thrive throughout recovery by being mindful, establishing boundaries and expressing needs.
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How to End an Addiction-Damaged Relationship
What do you do when the person you love gets consumed by a disease (addiction) that's beyond your control? How do we know when it's time to leave and how do you manage to adjust to life without your actively addicted partner?
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Guidelines for Living with an Addicted Partner
Learn how setting personal boundaries and demanding accountability works better than trying to manipulate behavioral change.
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"My husband is an alcoholic... what can I do?"
Being trapped is most often a state of mind. Are you looking for answers that you know deep down don’t exist? The simple truth is hard to hear.
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How Addiction Affects Siblings
The needs of siblings of active addicts and alcoholics are often overlooked. This is especially true when siblings are adolescents and young adults. Supporting the needs of all family members individually is the key to maintaining a healthy family unit.
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Communicating Effectively with Addicts or Alcoholics
The most powerful tool is the truth. Mincing words or walking on eggshells are common mistakes 'affected others' make. Simple, direct, and clear communication gives us our best chance to be heard.
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When Your Loved Ones Keep Relapsing
Supporting those who keep going back out: how to maintain hope and effectively cope when a loved one just can't seem to stay sober.
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Should You Marry a Person in Early Recovery?
When thinking about marrying a person in early recovery, how can you know that recovery will last? Short answer is - you can't! But you can learn to accept your powerlessness over the situation, make your own life manageable and set healthy boundaries.
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Support the Grandkids - Don't Enable the Parents
When adult children battle addiction, how do you support your grandchildren without enabling their parents? Read on for the do's and dont's.
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10 Ways to Support a Loved-One's Recovery
Supporting recovery - you're probably unsure about what's helpful and appropriate. The list below may surprise you. Here's how you can help.
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Parenting an Addict: No Misplaced Guilt!
Moving past guilt and powerlessness as we wait for adult children to find recovery.
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How to Help without Enabling
You have to let them face their natural consequences, but does that mean there's nothing you can do to help? Fortunately, you CAN support without enabling and your assistance today can make a big difference for their tomorrow.
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How Addiction in the Family Affects Children
In the midst of active addiction and early recovery, the impact of the disease upon children is often underestimated. Thinking about how children are negatively affected gives us insight into how to support them.
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Rebuilding a Relationship after Sobriety
Your partner's in recovery... now what? Tips on rebuilding a relationship while making your own needs a priority: building trust - one day at a time, setting measurable goals to work toward, taking care of yourself... rather than your partner.
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Your Partner Got Sober: Now You Need to Change!
As difficult as it is to love someone in the spiral of addiction, adjusting to life with a person in recovery is no small task either. Many of us found we lost ourselves while loving an addict/alcoholic. Now we start our own journey - one in which we focus on self.
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