Couples Rehab: Strengthening Recovery Together

What is Couples Rehab?

When someone goes through addiction, it doesn’t just affect them personally it also affects everyone who cares about them. This includes their romantic partner. Sometimes the addiction might also affect both people in the relationship. In that case, they can seek couples rehab, whether the treatments coincide with each other or it’s more of an individual treatment plan. It depends on the background of both people in the relationship’s experience with addiction and how it affects them specifically if it even affects the relationship with the other person and vice versa. Resurgence Behavioral Health can help couples struggling with addiction and each person in the relationship specifically helps with their addiction if it differs from their partner’s.

How Couples Rehab Works

Couples rehab doesn’t differ much from an individual addiction treatment. The only difference is two people are going through rehab together or at least alongside each other over just one person going through it. The process with couples rehab is the following: 

• Detox: When couples enroll in rehab together, they can detox from their specific addictions together. This allows them to have each other as a support system as the detoxing process is very uncomfortable and makes the body go through different struggles as it flushes out the toxic substances. It could take three to seven days for someone to be completely detoxed from the substances, depending on different factors as each person is different. 
• Individual therapy: Even though you can be enrolled in addiction treatment with your partner, doesn’t mean you have to do all your therapy sessions with them. The therapeutic approaches used at Resurgence Behavioral Health are cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and rational emotive behavioral therapy. 
• Couples therapy: This type of therapy is just conducted with the two people in the relationship going through addiction treatment together. One approach that might be implemented is cognitive behavioral therapy. 
• Group therapy: This type of therapy includes other couples and it opens up a more open discussion-based setup. 
• Motivational enhancement therapy (MET): This type of therapy approach is collaborative on focuses on increasing motivation for change. It makes space for couples to talk about their personal goals and values, carefully taking positive steps in the right direction toward sobriety together. 

The Role of Mutual Support in Recovery

When couples go through rehab together, they gain mutual support from each other as well as accountability during the addiction treatment process. If one of them is exhibiting negative behaviors, the other can confront them and try to motivate them during the recovery process. They can keep each other responsible for their actions during the treatment plan. They can also work together to stay motivated to get sober while also celebrating small milestones within their sober work. They also can continue to support and be on top of sticking with sobriety after addiction treatment is over. 

The Benefits of Couples Rehab

 Couples rehab can be the saving grace for many people struggling to get help from strangers. It’s especially more motivating when you go through recovery with your significant other and can motivate them throughout the process. Some of the benefits of going through couples rehab are: 

• Mutual goals: During the couples’ rehab treatment process, both people in the relationship can distinguish the top goals they share. 
• Strengthen their relationship: Going through a hardship within a relationship can make couples go through a lot of challenges; however, going through it together from a similar background of addiction can only make the couples’ relationship stronger. 
• Motivation to get sober: Having your partner’s support system in rehab increases your motivation to get sober and be in recovery together. 

Improved Relationship Dynamics

When couples go through rehab together, it can improve the bond and dynamics of their relationship. The constant support for each other can make the process of addiction treatment much smoother and it can also strengthen the relationship when getting sober together and staying in recovery. Each person in the relationship can keep each other accountable and keep them on the right track once they finally achieve sobriety and have to go back to the real world after rehab. When someone has a substance use disorder, they are always considered to be in recovery as it’s a lifelong process of staying on track with sobriety even if there are hiccups along the way of possible relapsing. The important part is always to get back to being sober and that’s possible when going through a similar process as your partner. 

When Couples Rehab is the Right Choice

Couples rehab is the right choice for both people in the relationship who are going through similar symptoms of addiction or at least both have some type of substance abuse. Even if you have different addiction symptoms or a different substance addiction to your partner, Resurgence Behavioral Health caters its treatment plans to each person. Part of couples rehab is treating the couple together and separately depending on how the addiction is affecting them or if it’s also affecting their relationship over just themself. Couples can help each other with their addiction treatment by being a strong support system for each other. After recovery is achieved, the couple can implement the sober lifestyle changes together and keep each other accountable, which can decrease the possibility of relapsing after rehab. 

How to Get Started with Couples Rehab

When you and your partner are ready to get treatment for addiction rehab, Resurgence Behavioral Health is a top rehab for couples. Resurgence Behavioral Health can keep you and your partner together during addiction treatment even if you need to seek separate treatment due to different symptoms. Before you and your partner enroll in addiction treatment at Resurgence Behavioral Health, you will go through an assessment separate from each other to figure out what treatment options would be best for you and your partner. Once you and your partner are done being properly assessed, you can both be given a specific treatment plan and be enrolled in the facility. Call Resurgence Behavioral Health at 855-458-0050 to enroll in couples rehab today.

David Rofofsky
After growing up in New York, David chose to get help with substance abuse in California because of the state's reputation for top-tier treatment. There, he found the treatment he needed to achieve more than nine years of recovery. He's been in the drug and alcohol addiction rehab industry for eight years and now serves as the Director of Admissions for Resurgence Behavioral Health. David remains passionate about the field because he understands how hard it is to pick up the phone and ask for help. However, once the call is made, someone's life can be saved.

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