Is there any hope for a couple with substance abuse problems?
My sister and here husband have been married 5 yrs, but have always seem to abuse alcohol, pills, weed, and whatever else they have done. She has confided in me about there relationship, and she says she wants to get help, but never follows through. I just tell her you need to worry about yourself. The two of you can’t fix this alone. I suggest she leaves and seeks her own treatment if he isn’t into getting help.
The big kicker they have a 2 yr old son together and i feel like i should step in, i don’t want him to grow up in that enviroment.
Any advice on what i should do or what? I just want to help my sister and my nephew before its to late.
I completely understand the child is 1, and know it def. a tough love situation. Its so frustrating because she has been with him for a total of 10 yrs and she was so much better before him. She had so much potential for a great future , and i understand she still can.
Thats why our parents are seeking some type of guardianship for her son.
Enough is enough.
I love her to death, and don’t want anything to happen to her or my nephew.
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There is always hope if they want the help they need to get to win the war that is raging in them now.
Sorry to have to break this to you but the child is the number one priority here. If not you, someone needs to step in and make sure this child is not a part of a household that engages in drugs. He is in danger and does not deserve it. He is innocent in it all.
Tough love here.
If it were me I would have to tell my sister either you get out and get the help you need or I will report you, not to make you mad but for the sake of the child involved here.
A responsible enough adult needs to step up and stop ignoring the bad and do something.
i think that you should call a family member that can get the child and if your sister is really wanting to change for the better will let you or the other member take her song in. my family has grown around that kind of thing and in the 13 years I’ve lived we’ve hidden in my apartment more then 20 times because my grandma and her husband went through the same thing. it will be complicated and the husband may try to get his son when he’s all hopped up and stuff but you just gotta stick it out for your nephew.
You are right. If both parties in a relationship are using, it is almost impossible to get clean unless they both make a commitment at the same time and are really sincere. Even then it is hard.
If they are using drugs, drinking etc.., then it isn’t safe for your nephew. The child comes first, do what you have to do to make sure he is safe.