Hi all my name is Cristi and my husband is an addict. He hid it well at the beginning and I didn't realize what was going on for the first year and I should have. We had so many ups and downs until he got really sick and almost died. He was in the hospital for 2 months with a severe infection that started in his arms and went to his spine. I thought that he was done using and he kept promising me he was done and wanted to go to rehab when he got out of the hospital. I was ecstatic thinking that finally our life was going to get back on track. Unfortunately that is not what happened at all. He went back to using a couple days after he was released. I didn't know he was using again for about a week and then I started paying attention more. I let my guard down that he was going to do what he said and go to rehab. Fast forward a couple of months and he gets arrested which was a wake up call for him. He is now in a rehab facility and has been there for 90 days and is planning on staying longer. I have told him that I support his decision to stay as long as he thinks he needs to. I guess my biggest question out of all of this is how do I support him when he gets out? We have had many long discussions while he has been in rehab and we have sat with his counselors and had discussions but the only thing they have told me was to go to meetings. Unfortunately there are no meetings anywhere close to me but thankfully I found this website and hopefully this will help me. Thank you in advance for any help anyone can give me.
Hello! When my son was being discharged from rehab we met with a counselor who stressed to both my son and I that open and honest communication between my son and his family was a must and we must all welcome this communication and talk about our feelings, whether good or bad. I made a promise to myself and my son that I and his family will support his RECOVERY in any way we could but we will no longer support his addiction. We have been holding that promise throughout the last 7 months of my son being clean. We accepted his disease and have learned a lot about all of us throughout this process.
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