What Are The Consequences For Your Loved One’s Behavior?

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

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

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When you love someone struggling with addiction, it can be frustrating because you see them self-destruct. And in turn, it can also sometimes affect you (and your children), right? I've been there before, too.

So how can you start to feel better?

Tune in to this week's new episode, where we'll brainstorm some consequences for your loved one's behavior. Doing this will help give YOU the power to choose your reactions.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast.
0:04.5	Hey, how are you?
0:21.5	As some of you guys know, I am taking a certification course.
0:27.5	It's an online course at Stanford, and I am learning so much.
0:32.5	And this week I'm learning about a thing called contingency management.
0:37.5	And before you hit pause or before you change to another podcast,
0:42.5	I promise I'm going to try and keep this very simple and as entertaining as possible.
0:48.5	So listen, here's the truth.
0:51.5	There's something that you have in common with everybody else that's listening to this, including myself.
0:58.5	And that is we love very good people that struggle with addiction.
1:04.5	And we are desperate to help them figure out whatever they need to do in order to get sober,
1:15.5	so that our relationships can survive, right?
1:19.5	I know that you are desperately turning or looking for someone or something to help tell you
1:27.5	that it's going to be okay.
1:29.5	And I am here to tell you, you are going to be okay.
1:34.5	I don't know about your loved one.
1:36.5	And I know that's really, really painful to listen to.
1:40.5	Let me say that.
1:41.5	But I don't.
1:43.5	The truth of the matter is, and you will always, always find me telling you loving truths,
1:49.5	no matter how hard they are to hear, that we don't know if our loved ones will recover,
1:57.5	or if their recovery will stick, or if they'll have lots of relapses.
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