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Not exact matches
I am not sure it is
about being strong — many
codependents are very strong for a very long time, coping with an addict and covering up for them and managing them and all the emotional stuff that goes with it, alongside doing jobs and looking after kids as effectively a single parent.
In spotlighting the mostly sweet - natured but still slightly bruised give - and - take of this unusual
codependent relationship, director Zachary Heinzerling's movie sidesteps doctrinaire concepts of nonfiction art films and expands its core audience, imparting glancing lessons
about the uncertainty of love and the almost necessary dance of responsibility and care - taking involved.
We know almost nothing
about their respective histories but, through their
codependent relationship (The irony that such an unhealthy bond is formed out of an ambition to uncover the secrets of mental health is inescapable), come to learn practically everything of significance
about them, save for perhaps the most important question: Which of them needs the other more?
This is a great book for people who think they might be
codependent but do not know much
about codependency in the first place.
If you feel the need to consult with your spouse
about every little decision, or you feel insulted when your spouse does not talk to you
about small details, you may be in a
codependent relationship.
Exercise: Finding out
about how I am
codependent and focusing on others needs instead of my own.
There's a joke I once heard
about codependence: How can you tell if a drowning woman, is
codependent?