Family wishes husband to stop marijuana, any suggestions?

[Cannabis Rehab Guest]

I just need advise on how to approach my husband to go and get counceling. My husband is really immature and bad with money, and is pretty spacey (due to marijuana use). Yes what a catch, but I still love him. I've been at him about smoking, and he lies to me that he does, and I don't want to tolerate it anymore. We just had a baby 9months ago and I want him to be a good example for our child. What are some ways that I could suggest that he goes to counceling? Are there support groups that I could ask to maybe come into his life and take him under their wing? If you have any suggestions I would greatly thankful. Take care and God Bless.

~Families Request.

[forever quitting]

Hey there

There is marijuana anonymous - link below - may be helpful as it may make him realise once he has answered the questions that he has a problem. only when he realises he has a problem will he be able to make steps to amend this. he wont stop for anyone but himself. i know this as i put the drug before everything and my life revolved around it for years. having a baby should be a wake up call and i know from being mother to a 6 year old - i wasn't the most attentive mother and regret many parts of his growing up - mainly the fact that i cant remember when he first crawled, walked, talked etc as my short term memory has literally gone to pot! CannabisRehab.org is great and perhaps him just looking through the people's struggles on CannabisRehab.org may strike a cord within him. this cannabis rehab site and MA are the only support i have found available on the internet and particularly this cannabis rehab site has been a godsend to me. I wish you all the best of luck

FQ
http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org/12questions.shtml

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

Hi unregistered guest and welcome to the forum

It’s a difficult situation, there are various groups and counselling, even full blown cannabis rehab for those who feel they need it, there’s a whole world of support including this place here, but if the person concerned isn’t prepared to take part then that is the limiting factor. So yes you can introduce him to marijuana anonymous or some kind of counselling, even send him here if you like, but like I say he will have to be willing, which brings me onto the first part of your question how do you go about talking to him about it, well from the advice I have read the main thing is to remain as calm as possible, you can be strong and you can be firm, you don’t have to cave in but losing your temper is not likely to help in any way, if anything it will give him an excuse to get out of the situation and avoid having to engage with you, so stay cool, but like I say this does not mean you have to be weak, be honest with him, tell him exactly how you feel and why you think the situation is as serious as you do. The other option if you fail to achieve his agreement is perhaps to call in reinforcements and try to find others who can help in convincing him to get some help, the approach that has become known as an intervention if you like.

Anyway take care, thanks for posting and please keep us posted on how it goes.

Good luck!