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We live in an age of addiction. Drug and alcohol abuse has been on the rise for decades. And in the past few years, the number and severity of such addictions have made a dramatic rise.
And it isn’t just drugs. Experts point to disturbing rises in other compulsively destructive behaviors, such as porn addiction, gambling addiction, and food addiction.
Several factors may contribute to this trend, but there's one predominant method that many families eventually use to deal with loved ones who suffer with it.
A spirit of tough love characterizes this approach. After trying to help the loved one curtail their addiction, or begging them to get help, we start to pull back. We also don't want to enable bad behavior by constantly coming to the rescue of someone who seems unable to be responsible for themselves. So we call them out by staging an intervention and demanding change. And until an addict finally admits to his or her problem and starts making amends, friends and family are often encouraged to keep their distance....