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When family members enable each other in recovery

My dad and I are both trying to get sober at the same time but we keep enabling each other's excuses - when one of us wants to drink, the other one finds reasons why 'just this once' makes sense. We thought doing it together would be helpful but it might be making it harder.

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Two people sharing a healing journey discover their mutual support can become mutual sabotage when they're not equipped to hold firm boundaries.

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