December 4, 2023
Codependency

Relationships: Tips to Improve

How can you improve your relationships? Codependent Relationships Study the codependent triangle. It is all about control. The Rescuer spend their energy taking care of everyone else. This includes mothers, caregivers, healers, nurses etc. A Rescuer neglects their own needs. Quit often they have no idea what they need. They have little skill nurturing themselves.

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What are Some Codependency Symptoms?

In codependency, a codependent has a compulsive need to control an otherwise out of control life.  This may be true as I experienced an out of control family life because of the unpredictability of my fathers drinking and anger outbursts.  Some codependency symptoms: I took control by withdrawing and numbing all my feelings. I also

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12 Steps to Recovery from Codependency Traits – Part 3

Recovery from Codependency Part 3 continues with the last four codependency traits where Part 2 left off. I am suggesting a full blown codependency personality separates by 12 degrees maximum from their true inner self or others. With each degree of recovery from codependency you become one degree closer to a healthy connection with your

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12 Steps to Recovery from Codependency Traits – Part 2

Recovery from Codependency Traits I am suggesting a full blown codependency personality separates by 12 degrees maximum from their true inner self or others. With each degree of recovery from codependency you become one degree closer to a healthy connection with your inner self and others. Part 2 continues where Part 1 left off. To

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12 Best Steps for Recovery from Codependency Traits

Six degrees of separation means everyone remains about six steps away, by way of introduction, from any other person on Earth. 12 degrees of separation refers to the maximum separation. Would you like to feel a closer connection to people? I am applying this concept of 12 degrees of separation to codependency personality traits. A

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Codependency Behavior: Is It Ruining Your Life 2?

In Codependent Behavior – Part 1, I gave you a brief summary of my personal challenge with codependency behavior. Five main areas of codependency behavior: 1. Inability to recognize our needs. 2. Lack of taking care of ourselves, fulfilling our own needs. 3. Inability to know how we feel. 4. Lack of skill or fear

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Codependent Behavior: Is It Ruining Your Life?

Although this article is written for the East Indian culture, the codependent behavior principles apply to all cultures. I am a white male born in Canada and now living in the United States for half of my life. I only recognized my codependent behavior 2/3’s of the way through life. Codependency had been running and

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Men How to Get Out of a Codependent Relationship?

It’s often obvious that a needy, demanding woman who clings to a man has codependent tendencies. However, a relationship consists of two people, and HE is no less responsible.  In fact, his behavior can also be labeled “codependent.”  Two people who have codependent tendencies may act in opposite ways: While one is needy and drains

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How Can Codependency Recovery Reduce Your Suffering?

Codependency Behaviors I believed I developed codependency behaviors to cope with my fathers drinking, which resulted in constant fighting between my father and mother for twenty years until they divorced. I never felt safe to express my thoughts and feelings so I retreated inward and became invisible, the lost child. I wore a stoic stone

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