Originally Posted by
wuzzled 
He doesn't really do anything. He lays in bed most of the time watching TV. He complains his shoulder bothers him (from an old injury from the service years ago, and he receives a small 10% disability for). He lays in bed with the heating pad on his shoulder. Sometimes I feel like he just uses this as an excuse, so he can be laying in bed doing nothing.
Is that acceptable to you from someone without an addiction? If your answer is no (hope so!) then ask yourself why you tolerate, allow, and even contribute to it by enabling it.
After one relapse, my daughter was doing the same crap... nothing. I finally came to a place where I realized I was allowing her to use her addiction as a crutch. She knows she's always free to be a lazy ass but she can't do it here.
Hell, I've had to literally use crutches many times in my life, and I still made it to school or work, and took care of a baby, too.