Choosing Addiction Over Family

As that addiction gets more control of them, the family, the people on the outside, get more and more frustrated. And so when this happens, the family starts, like, setting rules in place. They start trying to control it. They start trying to punish it sometimes, like, take things away. You know, I'm not going to give you money, or you can't come home, or you can't sleep in the bed with me at night. If you've been triggered, whatever, you know, they start doing all those things. And so then what happens is the person gets blocked from the view because they. All they're focused on is on the inside. They feel resentful because you're trying to control them. You're being unreasonable, like, you're being ridiculous. You're on their case. You don't see their point of view. And so then they get sort of blinded by the resentment. So at first, they're sort of blinded by the. The positive things that they get from it, and then they're blinded by the resentment that they have towards you for trying to control it.