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How Addiction Affects Sibling Relationships
The needs of siblings of active addicts and alcoholics are often overlooked. This is especially true when siblings are adolescents and young adults. Supporting the needs of all family members individually is the key to maintaining a healthy family unit.
Your Partner Has a Gambling Problem: Here's How to Help
If your partner has a gambling problem here are 5 tips for bettering the situation.
No Codependence! A How-to Guide to Family Recovery Support
Worrying doesn't actually help but it could make things worse. Learn how to really offer support by taking care of yourself first, learning from others via self-help groups and by working to transform the whole-family dynamic for the better.
How to Support Addicted Loved-Ones without Enabling
You have to let them face their natural consequences, but does that mean there's nothing you can do to help? Fortunately, you CAN support without enabling and your assistance today can make a big difference for their tomorrow.
How to Strengthen Your Family to Help a Loved-One in Rehab
Are you willing to make changes to become the kind of family that really supports recovery? Find out more about how strong families prevent relapse and about how you can strengthen your family, starting from today.
Taking Care of Yourself When a Loved One Has Bipolar
Living with a person with bipolar is overwhelming. We often neglect ourselves and this can lead to burnout. Here are some tips for caring for yourself when the goal is to help a love one who has bipolar disorder.
Loving a Recovering Addict/Alcoholic. Tips for Navigating Your Newly Sober Relationship
As difficult as it is to love someone in the spiral of addiction, adjusting to life with a person in recovery is no small task either. Many of us found we lost ourselves while loving an addict/alcoholic. Now we start our own journey - one in which we focus on self.
The Four Styles of Marital Relationships - Balance the Styles and Improve Your Relationship
There are 4 styles of relationships in a marriage. None are all good or all bad - the trick is in finding a balance! Learn about the 4 different styles and about how you can incorporate all into your romantic relationship.
Are You Enabling?
Enabling refers to any behaviors on your part that make it easier for the addict or alcoholic to continue abusing without facing the true consequences of their drinking or drug usage. It's easy and natural to enable, and we do it because we care and want to protect our loved ones; but to really offer love and care, the best thing anyone can do is to stop all enabling behaviors, and let the addict face the consequences of their own behaviors. It's tough to do, but it's one of the best ways to help someone you love who abuses drugs or alcohol.
How to Support Someone with a Family Member in Haiti
Many of us know someone deeply affected by the earthquake in Haiti. Even thousands of miles from the devastation, we can see the pain and worry in the faces of those we care about as they watch and wonder, or grieve, friends and family left behind in Port au Prince.
Substance Abuse and Family Violence
Intoxication leads to a great deal of family violence... violence against children, spouses and the elderly. Find out what you can and can't do to help, and learn how to stay safe.
12 Ways to Keep Your Family Healthy while Living with an Alcoholic or Drug Addicted Person
Addiction is a chronic disease with periods of active use and remission; and it’s also a personal disease which has whole family repercussions. If a person you love struggles with addiction, it is likely that you will experience periods in life during which your loved one struggles with alcohol or drug use. Here are 12 tips for keeping your family life as healthy and happy as possible during these times of use.
Addiction in the Elderly - Is Grandma Addicted?
Why do older people become addicts? What drugs are they likely to abuse? What to do if you suspect your beloved senior citizen relative is using drugs.
Addiction Recovery for Single Parents
When caring for the kids means seeking help for addiction: Overwhelmed by the competing demands of daily life, single parents are at a higher risk for substance abuse and addiction.
Repairing an Estranged Father - Son Relationship
When rebuilding an estranged father - son relationship there are 4 cornerstones that fathers or role models must recognize and establish before anything concrete can be created. They are . . .