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When family relationships remain distant despite addiction recovery progress

I'm three months sober and my teenage sons still won't eat dinner with me and I understand but it's the loneliest hour of every day

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Recovery's timeline doesn't align with relationship repair, creating periods where internal progress exists alongside continued relational exile.

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