While boundaries remain critical to healthy relationships they sometimes develop on faulty information or impaired thinking Caregivers inevitably collide with such boundaries while caring for loved ones These flawed boundaries may look like resisting rehab for injuries and or addiction issues refusing medications respecting others' time or a whole host of other issues Confronting those disputes requires deftness and wisdom from caregivers particularly when a loved one is dug in behind years of stubbornness Sometimes all that's needed is to clearly explain consequences of behaviors But when confronting someone with addiction or impairment issues for example all many caregivers can [... more]

Even if an alcoholic or addict is in recovery addiction is chronic impairment - requiring a lifetime of pushing against it and working some sort of recovery program Wherever one finds a chronic impairment there's always a caregiver For those in a relationship with an alcoholic or addict prescription or illicit drug use boundaries remain critical part of that caregiver's life Caregivers have no power to change their loved one but they can protect themselves and their belongings [... more]