Avoid This Cause of Relapse

I have two separate questions. Is it unusual for your addicted loved one to use when things are going well as well as pulling away after they use again? Yes. Whenever emotions get like, really good or really bad, when things are good and people are happy or celebrating or something great happens, that's a time when our guard gets down so people can use. That's one of the reasons. Other reason is because if they've been sober for a while and things are calm and things are going really good, then what happens is they get overconfident and they think, I got this and they let their guard down. And then that's also a reason why people relapse is just because they feel like they got it conquered. So they quit putting so much energy and effort into it and they quit realizing that they don't need to go these certain places, they think I got this and they just like totally forget about it. And then they use and then is it calm for them to pull away again? Yes. Because two things. One, they know you're going to be upset and they don't want to deal with that. And two, as crazy as it sounds, once they use again, like sometimes immediately, they're back to their addict self and it is the craziest thing to witness.