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How to Practice Detachment When You Live with Someone in Active Addiction

I have been to six Al-Anon meetings and everyone talks about detachment but I don't understand how you detach from someone you share a bed with.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The geography of intimate relationships makes emotional detachment feel like an impossible abstraction.

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