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When siblings disagree on how to help an addicted parent

My sister and I are both dealing with our mom's alcoholism but she thinks we should stage an intervention and I think we should just stop enabling her, and meanwhile Mom is getting worse and we're spending more energy fighting each other than actually helping her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Competing approaches to helping someone self-destructive can fracture the very relationships needed to provide effective support.

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