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A workaround that may help you if I’ve understood right.
Don’t know how to avoid this happening but if you replace the tabs with an invisible graphic the same width, just in the part of text that needs to wrap, it should work.

Draw a box, with no fill and stroke, the exact width of the GAP on your first line’s hanging indent – the space between the right of your list number/bullet and the tab for the rest of the paragraph.
Select this with selection tool and copy it.
Place cursor in text and replace the first tab with the copied graphic.
Select that placed box *using the text cursor* and copy.
Select the tabbed text that needs to wrap.
Do a find and replace of the tab [^t] with the contents of the clipboard plus indent to here [^c^i]
It’s not a perfect method as you’d have to copy and paste different widths of boxes for 1/2/3 digit list numbers.