Every family begins with the relationship between the parents, this relationship is the basic foundation of support for each parent and how he or she deals with challenges in life (Brooks). When your partner makes the decision to become sober, it is important to restore the foundation of support that you once had. Forming trust and positive feelings into your relationship contribute to the psychological quality of resilience, which helps you as a couple to function effectively and achieve good outcomes when going through the recovery process (Brooks).
Friendship is an important part of developing and maintaining an intimate relationship. When one spouse is an addict it can be difficult sometimes to find the right way to address recovery issues in the relationship. One way to address recovery issues is to listen to one another and acknowledge their feelings.
There are 3 ways in which to help each other cope and improve your relationship:
1. Help each other adjust to the changes taking
place in the relationship on a daily bases
2. Explore options and way to support your partners
recovery without taking responsibility for it
3. Find a way to talk about how each of you are
feeling and being affected by the addiction and the impact it has had on them mentally
and in the relationship- without blame or judgement
Brooks, Jane. Process of Parenting. 4. New York: McGraw-Hill, Print
Navarra, D. B. (2012). Recovering Couples: How to
Develop a Deeper Friendship with Your Partner . Retrieved from Couples in
Addiction Recovery: http://bobnavarra.wordpress.com/
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