Amber Hollingsworth explains how people with addictions often blame others as part of a denial process: they rationalize and justify repeatedly making harmful choices and seek external reasons for their behavior. She notes this blaming/rationalizing pattern is common beyond addiction as well.
People with addictions will blame other people often because they're making these decisions to keep making bad decisions over and over and over again. And then they're looking for a reason. So they're trying to understand themselves. They're trying to rationalize and justify. And that's a big part of what goes into the denial process, what goes into blaming other people. And guess what? It's not just people with addictions that do that.
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