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How Alcohol Subtly Affects Families

9 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth discusses how alcohol subtly affects families, specifically examining both the perspective of the person struggling with alcohol and their family members. She highlights that power struggles over control and rules can create a gridlock that slows recovery and prevents clarity about roles and standing in the relationship.

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Alcohol really does affect relationships in so many ways. And as usual, I want to try to talk about it from both perspectives, from the perspective of the person who has struggles with alcohol and also from the perspective of their family members. I feel like a lot of times what happens in these relationships is the two people get so locked into the power struggle over who's the boss of who and who has the control and what the rules should be, that that actually slows down the process of recovery and slows down the process of people figuring out where they really stand on things, because we get in this, like, gridlock of the problem in the situation.