Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Dr. Neill Neill
You both enjoyed a drink when you were first married. But unlike your drinking, his has increased over time. In fact it has become an integral part of everyday living for him.
It has become a familiar part of your life too, because you worry about what is happening to him and to your [...]
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Alcoholism Symptoms
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Tags: abuse, Alcoholism, Alcoholism Test, codependency, Marriage
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Keep your marriage healthy by keeping it free of criticism and judgment. Criticism in a marriage is a pollutant that destroys intimacy. Keep your marriage green.
Categories: Marriage
| Tags: alienation, codependency, communication, criticism judgment, enmeshed marraige, green marriage, intimacy, Marriage, relationships
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Parents with young children are totally involved in caring for and protecting their kids. They are enmeshed with their young children…But change comes quickly. Your kids learn to do things for themselves, and then demand to do them. They develop their own personalities.
Categories: Parenting
| Tags: adulthood, children, codependency, kids, Parenting, parents, psychology, trust
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
In my previous post, Alcoholism: Addiction with a Twist, I commented on how addiction can lead to addictive or co-dependent relationships. I ended with,
“The benefits to all of overcoming an addiction to the wellbeing of another are far reaching, but as always, the healing process begins with awareness.”
Awareness alone doesn’t remove the problem, but [...]
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage
| Tags: addiction, alcoholic-husband, alcoholic-marriage, Alcoholism, codependency, compulsive drinking, identity, intimacy, wholenes
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Addiction to a drug like alcohol develops gradually. Drinking alcohol may start out as social fun, or it may from the beginning be a way of escaping pain and difficulty. Sometime I think of it as one of dissociation’s helpers, because alcohol helps a person to split off from reality. But that’s an idea for [...]
Categories: Alcoholism Symptoms
| Tags: abusive behavior, addiction, alcoholic, Alcoholism, alcoholism marriage, children, codependency, withdrawal
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