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Difference between codependency and just
being a good, caring person
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Difference between codependency...
When codependents die,
they see someone else's life flash before them!
-Timmen Cermak
How can you tell the difference between codependency and just
being a good, caring person? Probably by your degree of
involvement and the amount of pain you feel. Examples of
codependency: If you only think and talk about someone else's
problem, have a long history of unsuccessful efforts to rescue
him/her or change his/her behavior, and always feel "I have to
do something" to help a particular person, you are codependent
and need to detach. If you have been terribly upset for months
with a person's problems (or with a series of people with
similar problems) and are thinking "I can't go on living like
this" but you do, you are codependent and need to detach. If
your lover has drained you of all your assets or your spouse has
had repeated affairs or abandons you while "working at the
office," and you are "going out of your mind" trying to hold on
to him/her, you are codependent and need to detach. If you react
with horror to the suggestion that you get out of this mess
which is destroying your life, saying "Oh, my God, I couldn't do
that; I care too much," you are codependent and need to detach.
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See also:
Codependent Issues and Topics
Does
society teach the alternative to codependency is selfishness?
Codependent and distancing issue
with my past addict
Quit being a
Co-Dependent on a meth user
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