Originally Posted by
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At the same time, I am her husband and would like to be included in her life. Communication would have helped. It went from communication through the first part of her rehab to none the rest of it.
I just wanted to share that I understand that feeling of being excluded just when your spouse starts recovery. It took a while for me to separate "him" "me" and "us" and the issues related to each pronoun.
Also, in my experience with RAH, communication was one of the hardest issues for us to overcome & we're still working on refining it a year later. In the first 3+ months of his recovery we literally could NOT communicate effectively & frustration grew on both sides because of it. Hang in there, keep reading here at SR, the wealth of knowledge & experience is amazing!