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Wondering What To Do About Another Person's Addiction?
People in Al Anon live with active addiction every day and they are happy, too! It is not easy to do. Living the program when both partners are recovering can be challenging enough. I admire those who achieve serenity and renew their own lives while still living with chaos around them. But it has been and can be done...if that's what you want to do. No one knows what is best for another person and we cannot advise one way or another. Your ability to come to a decision will come from taking the problem out from under the bushel basket and accepting it...which means looking at it realistically. It's very scary, I know, when crazy things happen out of seemingly nowhere. That can happen a lot when you're living with someone who's not in recovery...especially if you are. The craziness somehow seems that much more visible. Maybe even intolerable. Some people think they need to get away from the addicted person in order to be happy themselves. I can't advise you either way. Certainly, if you're in physical danger, get away from the person for as long as you need to. But if it's a matter of living with another person's addictive personality and active addiction, you have to decide what your bottom line, or tolerance level is. Being able to work the program under these circumstances proves the strength of the program: the steps, the fellowship. Stay close to your own recovery program. Be sure you have a sponsor. Read and meditate every day. Have alternative plans on hand at all times. And an ear that will listen to you when you're fed up. Detaching or leaving a situation doesn't have to be forever, either. It can be for an hour when we have to leave the room, a day, weekend, week, month, year, whatever. Just remember that happiness is also lots of Plan B's; trust that good things are coming to you, even if they don't seem too great at the moment. I'm always curious as to how things are going to turn out in my life...I want to wake up every morning and see what's happening, what direction I seem to be heading in. The addicted person's HP is looking after him or her, too. There's a plan for him or her and this is a program of hope. Go To Page: 1 2
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