{ "schema_version": "uw.editorial_geo.v1", "representation_profile": "lossless_source_sections", "local_stage_only": true, "catalog_id": "DEP-15-N11", "article_index": "DEP-15-N11", "language": "en", "headline": "Stay, live apart, or end the relationship", "description": "Stay, live apart, or end the relationship", "short_answer": "When a loved one's substance use changes life at home, “Should I stay or leave?” rarely has an answer based on a single incident. You may still love the person while struggling with debt, fear, broken agreements, or care for children. You may want to leave yet have nowhere affordable to live. This article distinguishes three possible choices—staying together, living apart, and ending the relationship—and the conditions each may require. It does not offer a test for your partner, diagnose them, or promise that your choice will change their substance use. Threats, violence, coercion, or danger to a child change the order of action: seek separate help and protection first. When there is no immediate danger, you may have time to clarify your own conditions and seek support for yourself before making a longer-term decision.", "short_answer_source": { "kind": "explicit_about_h2", "role": "lead", "start_utf16": 113, "end_utf16": 943, "sha256_utf8": "1042424d90ddc600975b4a75fecd57686b8b1699e84925889c5078ba8052aa1f" }, "headline_source": { "role": "h1_heading", "start_utf16": 2, "end_utf16": 43, "sha256_utf8": "70d45e3c8ac6e5a5bcda94bdf3021153d6c364591a0229eb6817d9e18fdbf807" }, "entities": [], "questions": [ { "q": "What this article is about", "a": "When a loved one's substance use changes life at home, “Should I stay or leave?” rarely has an answer based on a single incident. You may still love the person while struggling with debt, fear, broken agreements, or care for children. You may want to leave yet have nowhere affordable to live. This article distinguishes three possible choices—staying together, living apart, and ending the relationship—and the conditions each may require. It does not offer a test for your partner, diagnose them, or promise that your choice will change their substance use. Threats, violence, coercion, or danger to a child change the order of action: seek separate help and protection first. When there is no immediate danger, you may have time to clarify your own conditions and seek support for yourself before making a longer-term decision.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 85, "end_utf16": 111, "sha256_utf8": "a53bdb09d3d545eddde325393d7fae0fb8be199cef905ef433da14435f905db9" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 113, "end_utf16": 943, "sha256_utf8": "1042424d90ddc600975b4a75fecd57686b8b1699e84925889c5078ba8052aa1f" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0004" ], "source_segment_index": 1 }, { "q": "The first distinction", "a": "Separate the question of safety **today** from the question of the relationship's future. If you or a child face immediate danger, use an available local emergency or specialist service through a safe means of contact. A shared conversation that could increase danger is not the first step. If there is no immediate threat, all three choices remain possible. Staying can have conditions you set for your own actions. Living apart can create space and protect daily life, but it takes resources. Ending a relationship can be your decision without proving that the other person is “beyond help.” None of these choices treats an addiction in itself or guarantees the other person's response.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 948, "end_utf16": 969, "sha256_utf8": "715c55c53a94112e4db5410dd1fa4b3032e216f608bcc87e0269c33cf9c7c8c4" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 971, "end_utf16": 1659, "sha256_utf8": "409743810669da976ff19d08bb6a7f6c97acce8e4df8f20f960601dbe4a1d3c9" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0006" ], "source_segment_index": 2 }, { "q": "I. What are you actually deciding?", "a": "It helps to describe the decision more precisely than “My partner is addicted.” What is happening in your life? Are you afraid to go home, unable to rely on agreed childcare, taking on another person's debts, losing sleep, or hiding what is happening? Or can you still live together, but need different arrangements around money and safety? These are different circumstances. Another person's diagnosis does not decide how you must live with them.\n\nConsider a hypothetical example: someone promises not to drink before driving a child, then breaks that promise. The immediate question is not just how they feel about alcohol. It is who can get the child there safely now. In a different example, a partner is taking a prescribed antidepressant and reports difficulty when reducing it. Long-term treatment, physical adaptation, and addiction are different matters. A drug's name alone cannot decide a relationship, and this article cannot justify withdrawal at home. Look at actual conduct and consequences, rather than a label or an idea about a “strong” or “weak” mind.\n\nAsk separately what help you are **willing** to give and what is already damaging your life. Supporting someone and seeking help for yourself can happen together. The [NHS addresses families' own need for support](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/addiction-support/advice-for-the-families-of-drug-users/). Whether a particular service is available to you depends on location, language, and admission rules.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 1664, "end_utf16": 1698, "sha256_utf8": "703e0da1541aef946a5d7df01f89b7445da78611ea784f0ea011d4e9af53947b" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 1700, "end_utf16": 3174, "sha256_utf8": "f313dcb4dbb15e595044c775a000358bea5d093003d6c127021b1e5e6bebafb2" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0008", "p0009", "p0010" ], "source_segment_index": 3 }, { "q": "II. When protection comes before a relationship decision", "a": "Threats, assault, sexual coercion, surveillance, control of money, and isolation from other people are more than a “communication problem caused by drinking.” Substance use does not excuse violence, and protection need not wait for a diagnosis. The [NHS explains patterns of abuse and control](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/) and says people can seek help before the situation becomes an emergency. Immediate danger calls for an available local emergency response. If the threat is not immediate but you fear the reaction to leaving, an individual consultation with a service experienced in safety planning may help.\n\n“Leave right now” is not a universally safe instruction either. Attempting to leave an abusive relationship can increase danger. The [U.S. Office on Women's Health discusses planning and the real constraints of housing, money, and children](https://womenshealth.gov/relationships-and-safety/domestic-violence/leaving-abusive-relationship). It is a U.S. resource, not a statement of your local legal rights. This article does not ask you to confront a threatening partner, secretly collect evidence, or announce a deadline. In an abusive situation, the first conversation may be with a qualified helper **apart from your partner**.\n\nCouples therapy is not necessarily safe in this setting: disclosures during a session may later be used against the person harmed. The [National Domestic Violence Hotline explains this concern](https://www.thehotline.org/resources/should-i-go-to-couples-therapy-with-my-abusive-partner/). A couple without abuse may consider help differently. Here, no one should promise that joint therapy will correct coercion.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 3179, "end_utf16": 3235, "sha256_utf8": "5598a23eec432f25712079585ca06a9710ae4f6d89382d9382dc0b1ccfd2b52f" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 3237, "end_utf16": 4933, "sha256_utf8": "84aa5892b124baedb1402ef1f83f917ec44a991959fb633ad13891b358e3a194" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0012", "p0013", "p0014" ], "source_segment_index": 4 }, { "q": "III. What staying could mean", "a": "Staying need not mean accepting the old terms indefinitely. Where there is no violence and a conversation is safe, you can state decisions about your own actions: which expenses you will pay, when you can discuss a difficult issue, who is responsible for a child's care, and where you will seek support. These are **your** conditions, not a way to control another person's use. “I cannot cover new debts” identifies a limit you can act on. “You will change if I deliver the right ultimatum” predicts an action you cannot control.\n\nYou might offer to accompany someone to an appointment or help find information if you want to and they agree. [Alcohol Change UK distinguishes support for a loved one from care for your own wellbeing](https://alcoholchange.org.uk/alcohol-facts/fact-sheets/supporting-a-loved-one-experiencing-problems-with-alcohol); the decision to change belongs to the person using alcohol. You do not have to become their doctor at home, their sole monitor, or the guarantor of their treatment. Continuing a relationship does not require living together and does not make you responsible if they decline help.\n\nThe important question for staying is whether your conditions can exist in real life, beyond the next promise. Consider a pattern of ordinary days, not just one good week, and the support available to you and everyone living nearby. If coercion appears, a calm relationship conversation is no longer the first step.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 4938, "end_utf16": 4966, "sha256_utf8": "c844633f3d0bba36ac893ddf7ae5fccda30cc58d9f80da665be8b2c6d0aace36" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 4968, "end_utf16": 6412, "sha256_utf8": "28d4f934a606bc069513dfdead25c161627bd7f2de0bfab13411bc45bb27c4fc" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0016", "p0017", "p0018" ], "source_segment_index": 5 }, { "q": "IV. What living apart can and cannot do", "a": "People can live separately without agreeing in advance either to reconciliation or to a final breakup. For some, this allows sleep, work, and care for a child without a constant crisis. For others, it may be financially or legally out of reach for now. Living apart is not an experiment meant to “teach” a partner to accept treatment. It does not guarantee reduced substance use or create an obligation for the other adult to meet your terms.\n\nPractical questions matter: where could you actually live, with what money, how would necessary medicines be obtained, who would provide daily care for children, which agreements and documents are involved, and is there a safe way to communicate? A local social worker or legal adviser may help you examine these issues if they are accessible and contact is safe. The [Office on Women's Health describes such constraints in an abuse context](https://womenshealth.gov/relationships-and-safety/domestic-violence/leaving-abusive-relationship). Its U.S. guidance does not establish a right in your jurisdiction to evict a partner, take shared money or documents, move a child, or alter custody.\n\nIf there is a threat, do not make gathering belongings or papers a condition for seeking safety. Protecting life and obtaining available help come before a complete administrative plan. Without immediate danger, taking time to check your options is allowed. A pause is neither a duty to wait forever nor a promise that the other person will change.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 6417, "end_utf16": 6456, "sha256_utf8": "28c86612f2e9432489809f509bfbdaaf24eaa6ca80cf0fcefd201812f1524de7" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 6458, "end_utf16": 7942, "sha256_utf8": "a42b26d0cfd640abdf1dd0d23b00abdee4ea5a582436efaf0532a0702798ce17" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0020", "p0021", "p0022" ], "source_segment_index": 6 }, { "q": "V. Ending the relationship without judging someone's future", "a": "You do not have to prove that a partner will never recover, or obtain a diagnosis, before ending a relationship. You may recognize that you no longer want this relationship under its actual conditions. You can care about the person and still end a shared life. You can believe they might seek help without placing your future on hold until that happens.\n\nA decision to end the relationship is not yet a plan for carrying it out. Housing, agreements, finances, shared responsibilities, and childcare may take several steps and advice relevant to your jurisdiction. The other person's participation in treatment is not a prerequisite for your decision. Ending the relationship also does not remove their right to medical care and respectful treatment.\n\nWhere the relationship includes abuse, decide how or whether to communicate a separation with safety in mind, rather than an ideal of an “honest face-to-face talk.” The [NHS advises caution about disclosing plans to leave in abusive situations](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/). This article cannot determine a safe approach for your home or country. Individual local help is more useful here than a universal script.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 7947, "end_utf16": 8006, "sha256_utf8": "4540fb96debc38311ec4e6d2aa0fb189bec2d9c4092d42896f2cd421febc32e6" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 8008, "end_utf16": 9209, "sha256_utf8": "fbaf84c761f1166f418f095df7ed9833ecb1477707c7e2c911ff39a54209b6ec" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0024", "p0025", "p0026" ], "source_segment_index": 7 }, { "q": "VI. A child does not decide for the adults", "a": "If children are involved, the question is not simply whether a “complete family” is better. What matters is the particular child's life today: is a capable adult caring for them, is the environment safe, is care predictable, and can the child get help? The [WHO lists caregiver substance use and family breakdown among risk factors](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/child-maltreatment), but a risk factor does not prove harm in every family or determine a legal outcome. Do not diagnose a child from an observation list at home.\n\nA child is not a referee between adults, a monitor of substance use, a messenger about living arrangements, or a negotiator for sobriety. Do not ask them to choose a parent or confirm that you are right. A child's safety may require separate advice from an available local child, medical, or protective service. Ages, local rules, custody, and permitted actions vary. This article does not give anyone a general right to take a child away, restrict contact, or predict a custody decision.\n\nChildren should not be used as a reason an adult must endure threats without help. If danger is immediate, protect yourself and the child now; decisions about the family's longer-term arrangements can follow with qualified support.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 9214, "end_utf16": 9256, "sha256_utf8": "3d3415a47dd0142522cae7907ec41d18cc22fda0691a7b466f97586f946212d7" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 9258, "end_utf16": 10525, "sha256_utf8": "8efe0393bb6a848cff69c822e7c8b9c0d7845867c26a136448d172c999b90e7f" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0028", "p0029", "p0030" ], "source_segment_index": 8 }, { "q": "VII. Conversation only when it is safe", "a": "If there are no threats or coercion and the person can take part, you may describe the concrete impact on you: “When substance use changes our plans, I cannot rely on the childcare we agreed.” This is one possible sentence, not a proven technique for persuasion. You need not convince your partner that they have a “real addiction” in order to state your limit. You also need not have this talk if you are not ready or earlier conversations became dangerous.\n\nHelping the other person is voluntary. You may offer information about a specialist or to go with them; they may accept, decline, or choose another route. An ultimatum is not treatment, and love is not a mechanism of control. [Alcohol Change UK suggests a calm conversation rather than an argument for its own sake](https://alcoholchange.org.uk/alcohol-facts/fact-sheets/supporting-a-loved-one-experiencing-problems-with-alcohol). That advice should not be applied to abuse. With control or fear, seek separate support and safety planning before a joint discussion.\n\nNor should you issue an at-home medical order to “stop drinking tomorrow.” The [NHS warns that alcohol withdrawal can be dangerous](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/alcohol-use-disorder/) for a person who is physically dependent. Signs of severe withdrawal or another medical emergency call for urgent local medical help whether or not you stay together.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 10530, "end_utf16": 10568, "sha256_utf8": "bfc4feae71aed8573635f077d7d4f26b4b5ae81e42babb113f5450b071dc9a77" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 10570, "end_utf16": 11948, "sha256_utf8": "ec07f462f4fe6e31a9337ceb115d03ece5a69ad592635c7d9bf961387dc55096" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0032", "p0033", "p0034" ], "source_segment_index": 9 }, { "q": "VIII. Support for yourself is not a reward for choosing correctly", "a": "You can seek support before you have a final answer. Depending on the question you face, this could mean a family addiction adviser, a domestic abuse specialist, a doctor, a counsellor, a social worker, or a legal adviser. The [NHS explicitly addresses families affected by someone else's drug use](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/addiction-support/advice-for-the-families-of-drug-users/). Its named programmes are UK-specific; you need to check what exists in your own region.\n\nFinding a webpage is not the same as being able to use a service. Check whether it is taking clients now, in which language, at what price, with what wait, what information it records, and to whom it may disclose data under local rules. If another person controls your device or communications, discuss a safe way to make contact with a specialist; do not leave an open plan on shared equipment. Do not assume absolute confidentiality before checking the particular service's conditions.\n\nNo single professional must answer every question. Safety, another person's treatment, housing, debts, and children may need different kinds of expertise. Helping the other person is not the price of receiving help for yourself.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 11953, "end_utf16": 12018, "sha256_utf8": "fc326543db8259af62d164c95734f44751b57818a3aca65152d2247d421570f5" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 12020, "end_utf16": 13213, "sha256_utf8": "0d3be87ee694c4e60f33221b20736e1a5a13b347415c90ce477dcad9914259fa" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0036", "p0037", "p0038" ], "source_segment_index": 10 }, { "q": "IX. When to revisit the decision", "a": "A choice can be provisional, but time alone does not resolve a situation. If you stay, consider whether your own conditions are being met and whether daily life is safe. If you live apart, review actual housing, expenses, childcare, and permissible contact. If you end the relationship, you may still need help with documents, shared duties, and grief. None of this requires watching your partner, gathering evidence secretly, or “testing” them.\n\nDistinguish actions from promises. Seeking treatment may be a meaningful step for the other person, but it does not obligate you to return. Refusing help does not make every practical decision for you either. When you revisit your choice depends on your safety, resources, and values; it should not become an arbitrary deadline that supposedly guarantees an outcome.\n\nMedical urgency is a separate matter. Confusion, seizures, and other signs of severe alcohol withdrawal described by the [NHS](https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/alcohol-use-disorder/) require urgent local medical assessment; your relationship plans do not change that need. This article does not prescribe treatment or an at-home withdrawal regimen. You can call for help without taking on the role of doctor or promising to stay.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 13218, "end_utf16": 13250, "sha256_utf8": "859f52be2b5feba61275605d57972664405397305969f03d13f7575009fd594c" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 13252, "end_utf16": 14493, "sha256_utf8": "4ac0011270cd0d11ad0846d0aef1152172a72ffabbd563c5004d0a7d3ec9c2ba" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0040", "p0041", "p0042" ], "source_segment_index": 11 }, { "q": "What this means in practice", "a": "If it is safe and you have time, write down one concrete question for yourself: “What conditions do I and any child need for the next month to be safe?” Separate what depends on you, what depends on another adult, and what requires outside help. For staying, name a limit you can carry out. For living apart, check actual housing, money, and care. For ending the relationship, find out what local legal and social help you need to carry out your decision. You do not have to announce these thoughts to your partner in advance. When there is a threat, safety and specialist help come before this exercise. If help is not available today, you may still look for another safe route.", "source_spans": [ { "role": "h2_heading", "start_utf16": 14498, "end_utf16": 14525, "sha256_utf8": "cac0025fb51e434450b9925cf9a4977d85e79dc5ce2542d61d4355abea0cdd54" }, { "role": "h2_answer", "start_utf16": 14527, "end_utf16": 15206, "sha256_utf8": "ceffd7355223f10ed2de97a1625d7888910b9226ee27371dbb6afc1adbe3e76e" } ], "block_ids": [ "p0044" ], "source_segment_index": 12 }, { "q": "Five optional questions for yourself", "a": "These are original prompts for an adult reader, not a risk scale, a test of a partner, or a requirement for help. You may leave any unanswered.\n\n1. Which circumstance I already know about affects my or a child's safety today?\n2. Which conditions for living together can I express as my own actions, without demanding a promise of someone else's change?\n3. What do I actually need to live apart or end the relationship: a place, money, care, or advice about local rights?\n4. Whom could I contact separately from my partner, and is that contact available to me in a language I use, at a price I can meet, and safely?\n5. 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