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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