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When your partner uses alcohol to cope with trauma

He drinks every night to sleep because of his nightmares and says he'll quit when he's ready but it's been three years and I don't know if I'm enabling him by staying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Supporting someone's healing can become complicit in their destruction.

Worth thinking about

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