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What Is Co-Dependence?
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40 months, 4 days, 1 hour agoCo-dependence is a learned behavior, rooted in shame, where the needs of others are chronically put before our own. The co-dependent lets others define who he is and sacrifices his own integrity to insure the emotional wellbeing of another. Co-dependents are caretakers and rescuers, controlling their outside world to obtain inner peace.
"Co-dependence" is just a new name for an old game. Professionals had long suspected that something peculiar happened to people who were closely involved with chemically dependent people. A physical, mental, emotional and spiritual condition similar to alcoholism seemed to appear in many non-alcoholic or non-chemically dependent people who were close to an alcoholic. Later it was learned that co-dependency was triggered through relationships with people who have serious illnesses, behavior problems, or destructive compulsive disorders. So even though alcoholism in the family helps create co-dependency, many other circumstances produce it also.
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