The call the behavior codependent… excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a partner who requires support due to an illness or addiction. I try my best to avoid rocking the boat, causing the wrath to target me. […]
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My Real Task
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi I’m lovable…or so I’ve been told. I’m respected, so I’m respectable. Why is […]
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It is reasonable to have certain and well-defined expectations of our spouse, children, and friends. ~ Melody Beattie. The Language of Letting Go: Hazelden Meditation Series (p. 366) It’s axiomatic in recovery, “What you do is none of my business.” Can […]
Continue reading »I Am to Blame
I listed folks who made me mad years and years ago, people I resented, blamed them for wrecking my life. But as I looked back now piecing together what happened I realized almost without exception the fault was mine, the […]
Continue reading »Whose Should’s Run Your Life?
Take a moment. Examine whose should’s are running your life. Are the things you tell yourself you need to be doing true expressions of your legitimate goals, responsibilities, and commitments? ~ Beattie, Melody. More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily […]
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