1. Being inflexible ( or thetype A"Superparent") If you are the type of person who has a rigid plan of how and when things are done you do not allow your child an opportunity to voice their choice. If you are so in control of their schedule, their food choices, their clothing cho...
The relationship duet is the dance of intimacy that all couples do. If one partner moves in, the other backs-up. Partners reverse roles as well, but always maintain a certain space between them. The unspoken agreement is that the Pursuer chases the Distancer forever, but never catch-up, a...
Codependency has the potential to be draining, hurtful, and ultimately unhealthy for everyone involved. If you feel that you’re in a codependent relationship, getting support from a professional can be essential for your own mental health and the mental health of your loved ones. You can start...
Impact of a Codependent Relationship Giving up your own needs and identity to meet the needs of a partner has unhealthy short-term and long-term consequences. "You can become burned out, exhausted, and begin to neglect other important relationships," Burn says. "And if you're the enabler in...
The seeds of codependence are planted in dysfunctional families when a child experiencesemotional abandonment. He or she learns to either rebel, withdraw from, or accommodate a parent who is controlling, selfish, depressed, addicted, or abusive. Such children don’t get the sense that their wants...
They usually do not pick healthy people because they are not healthy themselves. They also have an intense fear of abandonment and are addicted to painful relationships because they feel that they can fix the situation and always dream that the situation will get better. ...
It can be easy to fall into a codependent relationship without even realizing it. Here are ten psychologist-cited signs you're in a codependent relationship.
Healing parent-child codependency in adulthoodYou've likely heard of codependency in the context of a romantic relationship, but it's possible for parents to have a codependent relationship with their children as well. And even though...
Having codependent personality disorder is really destructive to both the person that they are caring for as well as themselves. Most addicts that are suffering from one form of addiction or another cannot begin to see how destructive their behavior is because they always have someone to rescue th...
One situation in which codependency often causes problems is in a parent-child relationship. Although taking care of a child's needs is important, if a parent does too much, the child may not learn to be independent. Codependency also can become an issue when a codependent person takes care...