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How to protect children from repeated addiction recovery disappointments

My partner is two months sober and keeps promising our kids things will be different but I've heard this before and I don't want them to hope again

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Previous cycles of hope and betrayal create protective cynicism that may prevent engagement with genuine change.

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