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Codependency quotes

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Codependency refers to an imbalanced relationship pattern learned in early childhood. While feeling responsible for a loved one is natural, a relationship can become unhealthy when a person’s identity becomes wrapped up in caring for, supporting, or “fixing” another while subordinating their own needs. This can create a self-enforcing harmful relationship. The excessive care and emotional investment required in codependent relationships can leave a person feeling helpless and trapped, but there are healthy and constructive ways to reset boundaries and reinvest in interdependent relationships.

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FindCenterI learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you’re not ready for Big Love. What you’re ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.

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FindCenterWe can influence the other person through our words and silence, but we can never control the outcome.

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FindCenterIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

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FindCenterDesiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.

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FindCenterHe discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love—first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

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FindCenterIn any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.

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FindCenterOnly when you are able to set your own boundaries will you be able to acknowledge, respect, and even be grateful for the boundaries of others.

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