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Mercury News publishes column with expanded discussion of boundaries and recovery

3 Sep 15 5:26 AM · 9d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 3 of 3

Mercury News publishes the full column including Thomas's recommendation that the reader set boundaries by expressing pride in the friend's sobriety while maintaining distance until amends are made, and noting that responsibility for change rests with the friend and his sponsor, not his friends.

Mercury News publishes column with expanded discussion of boundaries and recovery
Mercury News

“It's not your or your other friends' responsibility to hold a friend-tervention of sorts. He needs to work on these challenges and shortcomings with his sponsor.”

R. Eric Thomas

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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch

  1. 1 outlet Asking Eric: So he went to rehab. That doesn’t make him a good person.

    first by Mercury News, 9d ago

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