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My husband repeatedly relapses, is this a life-long problem?

6 May 2023 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth responds to a viewer distressed about her husband's repeated alcohol relapses. Amber argues addiction is not "curable" in the conventional sense; relapses occur because the person convinces themselves they can manage differently and must repeatedly 'figure it out' until the insight sticks. She emphasizes the need to keep that awareness active in their conscious knowing — when they forget, relapse can return.

I'm so tired of my husband relapsing with his alcohol addiction. It's reaping havoc on our family and our marriage. Can it be cured? I promise you, Sonia, that isn't happening because addiction can't be cured. That is happening because your husband keeps convincing himself that he can do it differently. And it's frustrating because people have to figure that out over and over again until they, like, really figure it out. And once they figure it out, it gets better. But they have to keep that in the front of the knowing part of our brain. When they forget it, that's when it can come back.