Money won’t Save Them. And It Won’t Kill Them.
Your street-smart host delivers brutal truths about addiction, family dynamics, and the toxic myth that your wallet controls someone else's recovery.
This episode dismantles the "tough love" industrial complex and explains why withholding money isn't the same as setting boundaries - and why neither will save your addicted loved one. Speaking from lived experience (not a PhD), we explore the difference between financial boundaries and emotional abandonment, why addicts will get money anyway, and how families can stop martyring themselves on the altar of someone else's disease.
Fair warning: This contains uncomfortable truths about enabling, manipulation, and the impossible math of loving someone who's slowly killing themselves. Also, some therapeutic profanity.
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Not a doctor, not a therapist, just someone who crawled out of the gutter with opinions and a microphone.
Content Warning: Addiction, family trauma, strong language, existential honesty.
For families drowning in someone else's addiction - and the 26 Loudmouths brave enough to listen.