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.
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.
When love doesn’t lead to change, it’s easy to assume you’ve failed. But love doesn’t create change — choice does. This article explores why love, like logic, isn’t enough on its own in addiction, and why that truth is not a personal failure, but a relief.