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Addiction & Recovery

libodem

(19,288 posts)

2. Remember this tired old saw?

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2013, 06:19 PM

May 2013

The spouse of the alcoholic is often sicker than the alcoholic? Sometime they will actively sabotage the recovery because the old familiar life is all they know and the change forces them to change too. It is FN hard, huh. Is he in alanon?

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Relationship changes in recovery [View all] irisblue May 2013 OP

I can share this with you... dixiegrrrrl May 2013 #1

Remember this tired old saw? libodem May 2013 #2

Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2013 #9

I stayed in my relationship cally May 2013 #3

Somehow Old Codger May 2013 #4

i (we) practice the 12 Traditions in our relationship NMDemDist2 May 2013 #5

There wasn't a chance in hell that my relationship would survive. Iggo May 2013 #6

still sober and clean. 6 months irisblue May 2013 #7

congrulations dear IrisB NMDemDist2 May 2013 #8

I wasn't, but the relationship died for reason's other than my codependency tavalon Jun 2013 #10