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When partners of recovering addicts have no personal addiction or recovery experience, it can be helpful for them to know what their loved one has been through and how their loved one developed healthy relationship skills.

Author Karen Nagy outlines Steps Four through Ten: the "Relationship Steps." Mending relationships that were broken due to addiction is an ongoing task in recovery.

Ultimately, these Steps are about asking for forgiveness and forgiving others.

This category also gets the PIR thinking about how they were inconsiderate with their partner, how they might have been jealous or suspicious, or how they might have cheated on their partner.

Paul told me that, for him, the easiest part was to remember and list all the people he had harmed.

It was harder for him to admit the sexual harms he'd done and the people he'd used when he was still drinking.

But he said he needed to face those things if he ever hoped to have a healthy relationship--sexual and otherwise--in the future.