How To Talk to Your Kids About Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the loving truth: when you have children living in this situation, with their parent (or step-parent) suffering from addiction, you’ve got work to do.

You must be the strong and sober parent. You’ve got to protect them, teach them how to be safe, and educate them.

You must talk to them about addiction, no matter how awkward it may feel. And I totally understand having fears around it, I did too.

But you can learn how to talk to them about it, and I have tips for you today.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. So last week we talked about the importance of daring to dream of really taking a moment in our lives and creating a vision
0:30.6	for our future with or without addiction. It is incredibly important that
0:40.0	you stop putting energy and effort into your loved one,
0:47.6	stop trying to get them sober,
0:50.6	stop trying to prove that they have a problem.
0:54.0	Stop spending your energy and time trying to prove that they are lying to you.
1:01.0	They know the truth. They know they have a problem, they know they lied, they know
1:08.4	there's an issue, and it's not your job to try and convince them to admit it.
1:17.0	You know the truth. They know the truth.
1:20.0	That is good enough. Now it's time to move on and it's time to put all of that energy that you have been wasting
1:31.0	because let's be clear it is wasting it is wasted energy it is time to put that
1:41.8	precious wonderful energy back into yourself.
1:48.0	If you want to know how to get happy and healthy, whether they get sober or not, this is it. This is the way. You stop putting energy into them and you start putting it into yourself.
2:15.0	Now, let's also talk today about putting energy
2:21.2	into our children.
2:23.0	Because we are not the only ones being affected by this disease.
2:28.0	If you have kids, whether they are old or young they have also been affected by your loved ones
2:37.5	addictions. So let's start off with saying that they know something is going on, no matter how young they are, they understand there's problems. They might not understand that it's due to the bottle or the drugs or the pills, but they understand on some very deep level that something is going on in your home that is not okay.
3:11.0	The worst thing that we can do for our children is not talk about it.
3:19.6	The worst thing we can do is bury it under the carpet is avoid the difficult conversation.
3:29.5	If you had your
3:34.0	and you chose to have children and bring them into this life.
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