Helping someone in early recovery by paying for a comfortable apartment often backfires. The speaker argues that humility and willingness are what actually drive recovery, and financial cushioning can enable relapse instead of preventing it.
Humility and willingness are going to be their bottom of the pyramid for recovery. And so yeah, they're not going to go out and live in a 2-bedroom apartment in a really lovely high-rise. They're going to live probably with 3 or 4 other guys in an apartment or in a house. It's going to be more like collegiate living as far as quality. And so every family I've talked to in all these years I've been doing this, all the families that go ahead and help chip in and pay for living always regret it. So you really need to think about that because if you build a home for addiction, it will bring its suitcases, it will unpack, and it will live there pretty darn quickly.
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