Order 1 How Your Substance Abuse Affects All Of Your Family
The pressures of being a working mother are perhaps unlike that of any other. The responsibility of raising children is something that has to be treated with the utmost austerity and respect. Add to that how stressful a full-time job with all its demands can be. As a result, it’s not uncommon for working mothers to fall under the grips of drug or alcohol abuse. What starts as a way to relieve the pressure of the situation can easily lead to an addiction.
No one obviously wants to fall into this vicious pattern of addiction, which can be so hard to escape. Perhaps the key is to understand, before you even make the decision to use any amount of alcohol or drugs, just what addiction does
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If not, you could be having the following effect on your family members.
Wayward Children
Children who are young enough to still live at home rely on parents for their support system. Stability at a tumultuous time such as adolescence is crucial. When you as a mother are suffering from substance abuse and all of the problems associated with it, there is simply no way that you can pay your children the attention and care that they so desperately need. The concerning part is that they may go looking for that attention from sources that can lead them down a very bad road, one that might not provide any way back home.
Relationship Struggles
If you’re a working mother who is still married or is in a serious relationship, any addiction issues that you have will put intense stress on your significant other. The best relationships are ones where each party is able to bear the burden of the other person every now and then. In the case of a working mother who is addicted to some substance, their significant other will have to bear that burden at all times. That could lead to struggles for them at work and home, and it could also put so much pressure on the relationship that it eventually