Nope, not to hurt her business
[QUOTE=BpsyLicker;6871347]It's also just as possible the original poster was intentionally fed or gave false info to hurt her business. Unless she directly told him that in person.[/QUOTE]I'm the original poster, and Maria was sitting with me during intake to rehab when I wrote that post which she asked me to do. She and I have had our problems in the past but found some common ground and have become very good friends over the past couple years. I'm the one that's dropped her at rehab the last two times. Yes, she failed again this time but I just pray she lives to give it another try.
Mariah's story is confirmed
[QUOTE=BpsyLicker;6872452]Well as inconsiderate as it may be I'm just a realist.
Despite your claim, I'm no different than you. I've done the same.
I've had similar experiences with my sons mom, family and my job consists of only addicts.
The simple truth is. Nobody can offer enough encouragement, help or well wishes to an addict.
When / if they can choose to change their behavior is when they will get better. In most cases that's pretty rare for ANY form of addiction.
We like to think we are so intelligent but we are barely smart monkeys.
As I said in a previous post. This can be an addiction too for some. The bottom line is Both sides take advantage of people in this hobby.
From my experience. Even if you were magically able to convince her to get better. I can almost promise you will get Zero credit for any help you gave. They usually will take all the credit for themselves for changing their behavior "on their own".
It wouldn't shock me if she has used the false pretense of going to rehab just to get money from ya.
Anyway, can you confirm she failed again?
Was her recent post legit?[/QUOTE]I'll try to be the impartial judge here. I called her after her post appeared just a couple of days after the post appeared that said she was going to rehab. She answered and we talked for a couple of minutes. She said she wanted to go and detox because she couldn't do it on her own. And then signed out of rehab. She's back and available again. I too hope that one of these times she completes rehab and gets clean and out of this lifestyle. I'd steer clear of her because the monkey on her back is controlling her decisions right now.