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What Happens After Addiction

12 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth (uploaded Aug 12, 2024) about what happens after a person achieves sobriety. The clip focuses on family relationships fracturing in early recovery: loved ones often lack the emotional skills to repair hurt and resentment, and simple apologies (‘sorry’) or routine proof-of-sobriety actions (drug tests, check-ins) are usually insufficient to rebuild trust.

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I see a lot of families that actually start to fall apart after the person gets sober, because the person in early recovery either doesn't have the skill set or doesn't know how to help their loved one feel better. I mean, they may know that they need to do things to earn trust, like do your sober link or take your drug test or account for their time or where they've been or stuff like that. That's kind of normal. It's like an automatic. But as far as the hurt feelings and the resentments, they usually don't know what to do other than say they're sor. And let's be honest, the sorry just doesn't cut any more.