How To Set And Keep Boundaries With Someone Struggling With Addiction
Its detrimental effects impact not only the person but their family, friends, and loved ones. Setting healthy boundaries can be crucial in protecting your own heart when loving someone with substance use disorder addiction while also allowing them to try and recover. Boundaries are important to maintain the balance between supporting the person and enabling unhealthy behavior. You need to know the magnitude of Boundaries Boundaries are not for punishing or controlling the person, but for protecting yourself from emotional injury and from codependency. It can become a slippery slope when keeping a loved one struggling with addiction in stumbling blocks by covering for them, making excuses, or giving them money to support their addiction. The clearer your boundaries are, the more you define both what you’re willing to accept and what you won’t accept. Identify Your Limits Before you establish boundaries, consider what makes you feel uncomfortable, or if you feel in a vulnerable pos...