Agreed that social media makes it so much harder and makes it easier for people to be emotionally unavailable and to throw out hurtful things when you don't have to hear the person's voice or see their face. But, even with social media there are things that you can do to cut contact......like block them from your email and facebook and block their ability to text or call. I had to call my cell phone carrier to do this but it can be done.
It was truly a hard thing for me to realize that the abusiveness was not necessarily the drugs. The drugs are bad enough. You think that if a person gets clean or sober they would stop the other things and it's easy to use that as a crutch to keep your fantacy going about the person you want them to be.....if only he stopped using, things could be good or better....NOT.
Anyway, this is a great book because it is written as a workbook guide for the reader to think and write about things as you work through the book. It was a huge eye opener to me.
Thanks for your posts.