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…
Codependency: How Hyper-Vigilance Turns To Victimhood In A Never-Ending Cycle
Codependents show and exhibit many common symptoms. One of these and one that I see often with clients is hyper-vigilance, not in the sense of physical threat but mostly to…
Why Codependents Are Sometimes Resistant To Therapy
It is wrong to assume that if codependency is identified as an issue, the person concerned is codependent with everyone in his or her life...
Breaking The Bond Between Narcissist And Codependent
Among my patient group (and circle of friends), there are people who continually allow others to take advantage of them, continue to give and stay in very toxic relationships...
Codependents: Your Narcissist Partner Is A Symptom, Not The Cause
Many codependents that I deal with like to talk about narcissism because it generally plays a big role in their lives. As people who will generally attract the odious, they…
Controlling Codependency: Keeping Others In Line
Narcissists always get a bad press and probably rightly so. (At this point, we should note that we should only use the term narcissist when someone has been officially diagnosed with NPD...
After A Narcissist… What Next?
So, you have done the hard part. The narcissist is thankfully gone. It matters little whether discard happened or the courage was finally found to get rid of them, the…
Why Most Codependents Are Women
The ideal woman for many men comes straight out of a codependent checklist. Many women are taught from an early age that they have to be a certain "way" around men...
Codependency Stories Day 13: Trauma Bonding With A Narcissist
Today we meet J who is in an abusive relationship with S. In therapy, she has documented evidence of frequent physical, emotional and verbal abuse...
Codependency Stories Day 3
oday we meet R. An elderly woman who has been married for 40 years to an emotionally distant husband in a very dysfunctional relationship...
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