diff --git a/src/utils/cli.py b/src/utils/cli.py
index 0e8a61ea..e855f706 100644
--- a/src/utils/cli.py
+++ b/src/utils/cli.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import argparse
 import pathlib
 
 # Internal Packages
-from src.utils.helpers import resolve_absolute_path
+from src.utils.helpers import get_absolute_path, resolve_absolute_path
 from src.utils.yaml import parse_config_from_file
 
 
@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@ def cli(args=None):
 
     args = parser.parse_args(args)
 
-    if not resolve_absolute_path(args.config_file).exists():
+    # Normalize config_file path to absolute path
+    args.config_file = resolve_absolute_path(args.config_file)
+
+    if not args.config_file.exists():
         args.config = None
     else:
         args.config = parse_config_from_file(args.config_file)
 
-    return args
\ No newline at end of file
+    return args
diff --git a/src/utils/yaml.py b/src/utils/yaml.py
index e313c1f1..46ddb788 100644
--- a/src/utils/yaml.py
+++ b/src/utils/yaml.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 import yaml
 
 # Internal Packages
-from src.utils.helpers import get_absolute_path
+from src.utils.helpers import get_absolute_path, resolve_absolute_path
 from src.utils.rawconfig import FullConfig
 
 # Do not emit tags when dumping to YAML
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@ def save_config_to_file(yaml_config: dict, yaml_config_file: Path):
     # Create output directory, if it doesn't exist
     yaml_config_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 
-    with open(get_absolute_path(yaml_config_file), 'w', encoding='utf-8') as config_file:
+    with open(yaml_config_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as config_file:
         yaml.safe_dump(yaml_config, config_file, allow_unicode=True)
 
 
 def load_config_from_file(yaml_config_file: Path) -> dict:
     "Read config from YML file"
     config_from_file = None
-    with open(get_absolute_path(yaml_config_file), 'r', encoding='utf-8') as config_file:
+    with open(yaml_config_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as config_file:
         config_from_file = yaml.safe_load(config_file)
     return config_from_file