Relationships & Social Recovery
Healthy relationships are built on respect, safety, and mutuality—both people’s needs, choices, limits, and dignity matter.
Mutuality does not mean every task, feeling, or sacrifice is equal at every moment. It means power and responsibility are not permanently one-sided. Each person can express needs, make choices, receive care, give feedback, and remain connected to their own identity without fear.
Differences are addressed without humiliation, contempt, threats, or dehumanizing language.
Honesty does not routinely lead to retaliation, intimidation, or punishment.
Touch and physical closeness are consensual, and violence is never normalized.
Both people can influence decisions that affect the relationship.
Care, repair, planning, and sacrifice do not always fall to one person.
Each person can maintain appropriate friendships, values, goals, privacy, and support.
Change begins with noticing the pattern before trying to perfect it. Slow down, identify what your recovery needs, and choose one clear action that protects respect and safety.
If fear or coercion prevents honest choice, seek professional or specialized domestic-violence support rather than relying only on a relationship exercise.
It means both people’s needs, limits, choices, and contributions matter, even when roles are not identical.
Yes. Affection or attachment does not erase threats, coercion, violence, or repeated disregard for boundaries.
Use shared decision-making, direct communication, fair responsibility, respected boundaries, and accountable repair.
Alpine Recovery Lodge helps adults practice communication, boundaries, accountability, and safe connection as part of whole-person recovery.
Alpine Recovery Lodge
1018 E Oakhill Dr
Alpine, UT 84004
