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Scenario

How to address a friend's addiction without destroying the relationship

My best friend and I have been inseparable for twenty years but her drinking has gotten worse and worse and now I don't know the difference between being supportive and being enabling. Every time I try to bring it up she shuts down or gets angry, and I'm terrified that if I push harder I'll lose her, but I'm already losing her anyway.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes loving someone means risking the relationship to save the person, but the line between intervention and abandonment is written in invisible ink.

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Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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