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When recovery advice conflicts with filial obligation

My therapist wants me to cut off my mother who enabled my addiction but she is 72 and I am all she has.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Individual healing strategies may demand abandoning relationships that carry moral weight beyond their therapeutic value.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Recovery identity — from addiction?”

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