Dr. Twerski's Sober Thought - April

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April 30

What Next?

Marriages that survive the stress of active addiction can fall apart when the addict recovers. The spouse who had become adept at dealing with drunkenness now has no idea how to deal with sobriety. Now that the enemy is vanquished, What on earth do we do now? The answer is to get their own act together. We are not at a loss for problems of our own. What would happen if we got our act together instead of trying to fix the rest of the world? Exactly what happens when the nonaddicted spouse makes the necessary changes in his or her own functioning? The addict begins to recover.