Topic: co dependency

Partners of addicted people may have difficulty leaving or setting boundaries because they do not wish to be rejected or hated by their partner.

It’s difficult, perhaps impossible, for them to fully separate the behavior from the person. So in recovery, they may cling to resentments from the distant past.

Their targets often know or strongly suspect they’re being manipulated, but give in anyway because they can’t figure out how to avoid it.

It makes us uncomfortable to acknowledge that degree of helplessness.

They don’t realize how effectively their actions are undermining their own goal: getting the addict into treatment.

The idea was that the drinker would admit his sins, beg forgiveness, accept punishment, and promise to abstain from that point on.

If we have been or are in the addict’s path, we have dealt with having to compromise.

Too often our own hopes, dreams, and aspirations have been shunted aside.

Simple truth: Nobody can watch over another human being 100% of the time.

If we do nothing, the alcoholic person will probably wind up, at some point in the progression of addiction, in exactly the circumstances we fear.