If I’m a good girl, will you like me? Why do I feel the necessity to barter for appreciation? Is that my only path to self-esteem? How do I feel about myself, so how do I treat myself? Do I […]
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My Responsibility
If you want to get rid of it, you have to do something to make it go away. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Your codependency becomes your problem; solving your problems is your responsibility.~ Melony Beattie. Codependent No […]
Continue reading »I Taught Myself to Fear
I began young, without understanding that Mother found herself overwhelmed. She had lived with parents sixteen years, began college rooming with her older sister, moving back a few miles from parents, rooming with an older woman, relying on her father […]
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The way you bleed for those who will not tend your wounds is self harm ~ Nigeen Dara Codependency: “excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a partner who requires support due to an illness or addiction.” Would […]
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“The first few times we make the choice to “be peaceful rather than right,” it feels like denial. But with practice it will become the preferred choice.” ― Karen Casey, Let Go Now: Embracing Detachment Right is right and when […]
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