FAMILY ISSUES:

We can draw a healthy line, a healthy boundary, between
ourselves and our nuclear family. We can separate
ourselves from their issues.

Some of us may have family members who are addicted to
alcohol and other drugs and who are not in recovery from
their addiction.

Some of us may have family members who have unresolved
codependency issues. Family members may be addicted to
misery, pain, suffering, martyrdom, and victimization.

We may have family members who are addicted to work,
eating, or sex. Our family may be completely enmeshed, or
we may have a disconnected family in which the members
have little contact.

We may be like our family. We may love our family. But we
are separate human beings with individual rights and issues.
One of our primary rights is to begin feeling better and
recovering, whether or not others in the family choose to do
the same.

Often when we begin taking care of ourselves, family
members will reverberate with overt and covert attempts to
pull us back into the old system and roles. We do not have
to go. Their attempts to pull us back are their issues. Taking

care of ourselves and becoming healthy and happy does not
mean we do not love them. It means we're addressing our
issues.

We do not have to judge them because they have issues; nor
do we have to allow them to do anything they would like to
us just because they are family.

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