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How to Love an Adult Child with Addiction Without Enabling

My 25-year-old daughter is struggling with addiction and every time I try to help her I feel like I'm enabling her but when I step back I feel like I'm abandoning her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to rescue conflicts with the recognition that true help might require allowing natural consequences.

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