Addiction is a disease. The addict uses because they have the disease of addiction. Some people have cancer or diabetes. We don’t criticize or judge them for those diseases and we don’t enable them either. A good friend of mine is a diabetic. I avoid eating sugar laden foods in his presence. I don’t hate him because he’s a diabetic but I do hate what the disease is doing to him. It’s not my fault that he has diabetes. I didn’t do anything wrong or cause him to be a diabetic. He has a disease. And he can choose whether to fight it or not. All I can do is avoid enabling him. Some may call it “tough love” but I don’t make it easy or comfortable for him. Whenever he asks for something he shouldn’t eat, I just say no.

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