The issue of relationships in drug and alcohol rehabs keeps coming up. In running a rehab facility it is one of the common boundary issues that has to be dealt with on almost a daily basis. Constantly we are confronted with, “people are adults“, “leave them be” and “they aren’t hurting anyone“. I have written several posts on the dangers and the safety issues that arise out of relationship and sexual issues in a rehab. It is extremely difficult to keep a rehab center safe for everyone if intimate relationships are formed and acted apon in a rehab.

I came across a great little article on this, talking about if marriage can survive addiction. I think it is an elequent example of the problems of embarking on a relationship in rehab or shortly after rehab. Notwithstanding the safety issues it gives more ammunition to the arguements against forming relationships while trying to become sober. Click here to have a look.

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