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Old 07-02-2015, 05:57 PM
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LexieCat
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I'm not sure how having her laptop and cell phone will help her get sober--it WILL make it easier for her to drive you crazy with phone calls and texts. I assume her folks are paying for this round?

Keep hitting those meetings. Every group is different, and even with the same group, different meetings vary by who happens to be there. And even with the parents of the drug addicts, their situation isn't so very different from yours. They are terribly worried about someone whose substance abuse is out of control, endangering themselves and their families. One of the things I was told early on in Al-Anon and AA was to "identify, don't compare." Don't examine everyone's external situation to see how much it is or isn't like yours. Those externals really aren't at the heart of someone's experience. Listen instead for the emotions they feel, the helplessness, the anger, the sadness. Those are things that you share, and there is a common solution in the Steps.

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