What happens to the family money when the addict gets sober really depends on each family. In Alcoholic Anonymous, the Wives Chapter puts the active addict situation this way: “There was never financial security. Positions were always in jeopardy or gone. An armored car could not have brought the pay envelopes home. The checking account…
shame
Dear Wife of An Addict
Dear Wife of An Addict, Did you just lose another battle? One more push for change to control the use/abuse of a substance/lifestyle. You timed it perfectly, your argument for stopping the behavior was well thought out and rational. Anyone could see that his behavior was/is killing the family and himself. Why won’t he listen…
How to Correct Children Without Shaming Them
As parents we have all done it, shamed our precious child. We can do it overtly or just by a look of disapproval. Do we do this out of habit, discipline, ‘it worked for me”, laziness, or shear ignorance? I assume that most of us are ignorant to the difference between shame and guilt. Shame-…