Amber Hollingsworth argues that caregivers should stop rescuing people with addiction. Let them face natural consequences instead of punishing or intervening. That's what pushes someone from having fun with problems to actually confronting them.
They're not going to learn their lesson and you're slowing it down. So your job is to not get on the relapse train with them. When I finally learned to step back and let them suffer the consequence of their addiction and stop saving them, I let them graduate from fun with problems to only problems. They got motivated. I love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Spot on. Formula is natural consequences, not your consequences. Those are punishments. Not you take something from them or take a privilege or force something. Those are punishments. Whatever the natural world does, you let that happen and you resist with all your might jumping in there and trying to instigate it by playing a bad guy, and they figure it out.
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