When you’re in recovery, every choice you make either strengthens or hinders your progress. And relationships often play a bigger role than we realize. The people in your life can either support your growth or pull you back into old, destructive patterns, sometimes without you even realizing it.
For me, there was one toxic relationship that nearly derailed my recovery. This person had been in my life for years, and while I told myself they cared about me, the truth was their presence kept pulling me back into patterns I was trying to escape. I thought I could manage the situation, that I could maintain my progress while keeping this person in my life. But their actions—whether intentional or not—kept dragging me down. They normalized my harmful behaviors, dismissed my attempts to change, and even mocked my commitment to therapy and sobriety. It wasn’t always obvious at first, but over time, I started to see how their influence was chipping away at the progress I had worked so hard to make.
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