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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 713537" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Thanks for the update. </p><p></p><p>I'm glad you're holding your ground. I hope you're feeling better all around. You deserve happiness.</p><p></p><p>For your information, here in CA. Kaiser has a program for substance abuse and codependency. They offer it in quite a number of their facilities. Often, the substance abuser and codependent enter the program together. It is an excellent course which goes for about a year. I took the course and stayed through three phases of the codependency course......it changed my life. I effectively learned how to deal with my own codependency issues mostly through the therapist lead support group which coincidentally had other parents of mentally ill adult children in it as well as parents/spouses of substance abusers. Attending the course helped to shift my responses in ways which supported ME..... and my life shifted out of focusing on "others" to focusing on myself........I cannot emphasize how profoundly important that is. If you are a member, you might look into it. Both you and your wife might find real benefit/healing in the course.</p><p></p><p>It sounds as if you've begun a new outlook and a new life. Change is difficult, it requires a commitment, which you have, and a willingness and intention to do <em>whatever it take</em>s, which it sounds like you've developed over time. Stay the course, get support, put yourself as the priority and make finding YOUR peace and joy the priority, you deserve that.</p><p></p><p>Sending warm wishes for this next part of your journey.......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 713537, member: 13542"] Thanks for the update. I'm glad you're holding your ground. I hope you're feeling better all around. You deserve happiness. For your information, here in CA. Kaiser has a program for substance abuse and codependency. They offer it in quite a number of their facilities. Often, the substance abuser and codependent enter the program together. It is an excellent course which goes for about a year. I took the course and stayed through three phases of the codependency course......it changed my life. I effectively learned how to deal with my own codependency issues mostly through the therapist lead support group which coincidentally had other parents of mentally ill adult children in it as well as parents/spouses of substance abusers. Attending the course helped to shift my responses in ways which supported ME..... and my life shifted out of focusing on "others" to focusing on myself........I cannot emphasize how profoundly important that is. If you are a member, you might look into it. Both you and your wife might find real benefit/healing in the course. It sounds as if you've begun a new outlook and a new life. Change is difficult, it requires a commitment, which you have, and a willingness and intention to do [I]whatever it take[/I]s, which it sounds like you've developed over time. Stay the course, get support, put yourself as the priority and make finding YOUR peace and joy the priority, you deserve that. Sending warm wishes for this next part of your journey....... [/QUOTE]
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