addiction recovery specialists?
Question by Raoul Duke: addiction recovery specialists?
I am not in recovery, nor have I ever been (daily user), but I do have an interest in the topic… I have heard several times now that it is not recommended that recovering addicts engage in a relationship, personal/sexual relationship for around a year after they have begun recovery. why is that? I kind of think that having a relationship (with a non user) could help a person on the road to recovery, sort of something to strive towards or work for.
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Answer by Roseanna
I work in addiction services but I have never heard that. Ive heard that relationships with people who are still users will be difficult to remain clean but thats all relationships whether its your wife or the lad that lives down the road.
Answer by Messacheckabee
Most therapists don’t recommend starting a new relationship in the middle of recovery since the recover is a full time work and in the end you will be very different as a person than you are when you start it. Since recovery is so totally focused on you, your needs and your difficulties it can be hard for a person who is a non user to start a relationship with someone in that situation, for them, since there isn’t much room for the non user, and a relationship is about giving and taking, not one person giving all the time. And if they get tired of that, you loose your support, what will happen then? The temptation to start drinking again would be bigger.
But you are right, support is crucial, it might just be a good idea to keep that support to friends or support groups of people that have been through the same thing. AA, NA and similar groups have success because they are a group of people that can really truly help, they know how hard it is.
Bad relationships usually break from the journey of recovery for different reasons. Good relationships can also be very strained. If you have a relationship, and have gone through recovery and it has survived, and it continues to survive even during the, still trying, period that follows, it might be as a strong as a rock, but unfortunately that is not too common.
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