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Originally Posted by Hevyn  A person who doesn't understand addiction is so hard to reason with. He wouldn't be "punishing" you if you had cancer, would he? Does he get it that you have been coping with a disease? |
I totally understand this frustration and tendency we have to defend one another but I also think it's important to remember that our loved ones have also been dealing with the disease. I used to think that "they" didn't (couldn't) understand what I was going through- period. This is true BUT what is also true is that I did not (could not) understand what "they" were going through. Like it has been said - addiction is a family disease - that being so, recovery must also be a family affair.