Originally Posted by
Wamama48 
We work very closely with a specialist for him, but it takes time for him to learn the skills needed to be safe.
This is also what recovery is like. Once I got serious(honest to myself and others here and in AA) about my recovery I felt like a child learning to 'live again'. I'm early 40's and it took me about 8 months to have the mentality of I'd say a 26yr old. AA didn't consume me,but it did change the person I had become via drinking/drugging for years.