Silence
What in the world can you do when faced with the addiction, the dependency of someone you love?
The news is this – the woman driving the wrong way on the highway, who crashed and killed eight including herself – was drunk and high. A broken Absolut bottle in the car, along with the autopsy report tells the tale of a woman gravely impaired. Behind the wheel, on the road, driving a time bomb.
A relative reports he knew something was wrong, but…
Fear gets in the way.
“She won’t talk with me again!”
“She’ll be mad at me.”
“She’ll leave!”
These are some of the excuses I hear folks using when deciding they’ll stand by rather than act to help change someone they love get better. Their loved on is stuck in the vice-grip of impaired behavior and fear stops family and friends in their tracks.
Stand by and pray? Hope against a history that tells you things don’t change, unless you change them?
Prayer without action is worth little in getting someone you love to breakthrough a drug or alcohol dependency to accept help.
Be brave. Step in. Speak up.
Give voice to fear you feel and turn it into the hope of action.