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Two Codependents Will Also Find A Relationship Difficult

Very often codependents attract a certain type. Used to giving and sacrificing, they naturally tend towards partners who like to take and receive anything that is on offer...

Being Codependent Stops You Facing The Real Issues

Codependents generally have an unhealthy focus on the external. In many cases, this focus is on a specific person (usually emotionally unavailable) but it can also be on work, to take an example...

Codependency: Setting Healthy Boundaries

I deal with many co-dependent people on a daily basis and one factor that is extremely common is the inability to set healthy boundaries...

The Critical Aspects of Codependency Recovery

At the heart of this process is a willingness to work on oneself and to accept that co-dependency is an issue in relationships...

Recovery from Codependency Is Ultimately About Making The Right Choices

There are many programs that one can subscribe to in order to recover from a codependent life. All of them offer something different from different angles and theories...

The Roots Of Codependency: Look To Bonding And Parental Common Sense!

There is an old saying: "anyone can have a child but not everyone can be a parent". These wise words are very true and can be applied to a lot of the parenting we all see day to day...

The Lack Of Psychological Birth That Leads To Codependency

Codependency is not a disease and should not be treated like one. When managed care systems finally recognise it as a disorder, there will surely be a push to apply a medical model to recovery...

A Childhood Guaranteed To Foster Codependency

It has been said that a large part of the global population is codependent on something or somebody. That something could be work, substances, alcohol...

Codependents: Letting Go And Relapsing

Codependents love to give. It is what they do, continually. As I have mentioned in previous posts, this giving comes with an element of return…

Emotional Incest Or Invasive Parenting… Call It What You Will, It Is A Terrible Form Of Child Abuse

Can you imagine what it is like for a child who is trying to work out how the world works, being dragged into the adult world before they are ready...