Overcoming Drug annd Alcohol addiction can be a difficult and sometimes lonely task. When someone leaves a drug or alcohol rehab it is more essential than ever to find and cultivate some true friendships. This always leads to the question of what is a true friend. Sometimes it is easier to describe what a real friend is not.

People Who Enmesh

People who are overly dependent on you or who use obvious control tactics are manipulators.

These are the people who cause high stress in your life through their behaviors.

Initially limit contact and repay any debt to reduce their control over you.

Manipulators rarely change their behavior through requests for change, they change when you fail to respond to their tactics.

Decisions on how and when to work on relationships with people who have these types of issues need to be based on their and your readiness to work through communication problems and to make change.

The only person you can directly control is you.

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