I appreciate you putting this out there... I am the son of an absent father who till this day struggles with his addiction, he has been in and out of rehab for as long as I can remember with plenty of those times being situations we thought he would not live through them... As someone who loves his father as flawed as he might be I would like for society to eventually shift the narrative on addiction and treat it for it what really is... its a mental health problem not a criminal one... sometimes I think that the stigma behind addiction is one of the elements that does not allow for recovering addicts to dig themselves out that emotional trench.... Anyways enough rambling from me.. thanks for sharing.
That's a tough situation, and I agree completely. Many aspects of healing are treated externally when the real healing has to take place in our own minds. I wish you both the best.