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Why Toxic Relationships Keep Us Hooked on Addiction

1 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (creator/speaker) discusses how, in addiction recovery, the relationship component is often the hardest: many people experience more fear and ambivalence about letting go of toxic relationships than about quitting substances. Clients may achieve periods of sobriety but relapse repeatedly because one or two negative or toxic relationships continue to pull them back.

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One of the hardest parts is the relationship piece. In fact, I find a lot of people have more fear and ambivalence and difficulty letting go of the relationships than they do of the substances. I've worked with a lot of people who. They're ready to let go of whatever the addiction is, and they do for periods of time, but they keep falling back because usually it's one or two negative influence or toxic kind of relationships. It's like they're having trouble letting go of the relationships and it keeps pulling them back over and over again.