When You Feel Responsible for Their Recovery
When you love someone with an addiction, it can slowly start to feel as though their recovery depends on you. But caring about their recovery is not the same as being responsible for it.
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When Helping Keeps Them Sick
When someone you love is struggling with addiction, helping can feel like the most natural thing in the world. But sometimes the very things done out of love quietly protect the addiction from its consequences. This article explores the difficult truth about “borrowed consequences” — and why constantly rescuing someone may be keeping both of you stuck.