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Dating or Waiting: Understanding the Impact of Romantic Relationships on Sobriety

Dating or Waiting: Understanding the Impact of Romantic Relationships on Sobriety

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Rebuilding or building new relationships in recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) can be challenging. Relationships with peers can often enhance your life in recovery and help you stay on the path to sober living. When it comes to romantic relationships, however, you may need to think carefully. There is always the risk that managing […]

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Overcoming Co-Dependency in Relationships During Recovery

Overcoming Co-Dependency in Relationships During Recovery

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What is co-dependency? Why is it harmful? Do you know how to identify co-dependent relationships? Unfortunately, many people with substance use disorder (SUD) develop co-dependent relationships long before they realize it. Co-dependency is not conducive to sustainable recovery because it reinforces unhealthy relationship dynamics. Individuals in recovery must learn to stop co-dependent behaviors if they

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Common Warning Signs of Codependency

Common Warning Signs of Codependency

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If you are supporting a loved one who is dealing with substance use disorder (SUD), you should first examine whether your relationship has been enabling or codependent. Knowing how to detect the warning signs can help your loved one reverse course and maintain progress in recovery. Time to Re-Examine Your Relationship SUD always impacts relationships.

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Dangers of Toxic Relationships and Mental Health

How Toxic Relationships Affect Your Mental Health

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Toxic relationships can have a damaging impact on people’s emotional and mental health, though these health hazards are often quite hidden. Culture at large has made a movement toward positive things like healthy foods, fitness opportunities, and creating your own dream job. The next step should be to spread awareness and tips on how to

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Common Lies People With Addictions Tell Themselves

Common Lies People With Addictions Tell Themselves

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Denial among people with substance addiction is common because they often feel the need to hide the depth of their struggles from themselves and their loved ones. Many lies and half-truths they tell themselves are to downplay the harmful effects of substances or minimize the severity of their addiction. If you are supporting a loved

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Why Is Narcissism Toxic in Relationships?

Why Is Narcissism Toxic in Relationships?

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More and more people have started noticing and paying attention to a mental condition known as narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder. Unlike depression or compulsive disorders, narcissism is a more complicated package of causes, effects, and symptoms. Some people with narcissistic traits can behave very charmingly or even charismatically in front of the public, but

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Breaking Generational Dysfunction

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Families are places where loving relationships and trust are meant to flourish. However, in reality, destructive patterns abound in families, and some get passed down from one generation to the next. Tragically, dysfunction in one generation can beget dysfunctions in the next.  Unfortunately, the human community continues to produce fractured families. However, this does not

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