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When family members have conflicting approaches to helping someone they love

My dad and I are both trying to help my brother through his addiction but Dad thinks tough love works and I think it just pushes him away, and our different approaches are creating more chaos in an already impossible situation.

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Love expressed through incompatible strategies creates additional harm in an already fragile system.

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