Sentences with word «codependent»

Pedram calls them Time Vampires and says we often engage in codependent relationships with them.

People in codependent relationships often tell small lies to one another to keep each other happy.

The best way to break free of codependent behavior is to have a support system outside of your relationship, whether that's friends, family or a counselor.

Most couples display codependent behaviors in their relationships.

Maybe before, even though we were very happy, we were kind of codependent on one another and lacked a healthy autonomy.

Instead, he went so far as to label her as codependent even though her postings showed that she obviously wasn't.

Melodie Beattie, author of Codependent No More, has spoken at the church, as has Karen Casey, author of Each Day a New Beginning.

Adversely, your child may become codependent on someone who is unhealthy for them, such as a «parent - child relationship» or someone else who is uninvolved in their life.

Secure: People with a secure attachment style are not afraid of intimacy and are also not codependent.

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I must say more: Take two very sensitive, codependent people.

Codependent partners suffer from low self - esteem, causing them to be more focused on filling their partner's needs than knowing and satisfying their own, according to Guenther.

I think our religions and cultures, our beliefs and our character, are so interwoven, so codependent, so symbiotic, that it's no longer helpful to distinguish them.

What does it mean when we talk about codependent relationships?

The most notable lesbian feature films in the programming were Jamie and Jessie are Not Together (d. Wendy Jo Carlton), or as I preferred to call it «Jessie can do better», Hannah and the Hasbian (d. Gordon Napier) and Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (d. Madeleine Olnek).

I try to curb codependent tendencies and charge enough to keep my lights on and stay in business.

It has had no ontological identity; it is codependent upon a Church that it has left and has erroneously called itself a church.

Even when I could barely tell what was going on on the crowded battlefield and my troops were a little too codependent, I enjoyed directing the action and jumping in to be part of the carnage.

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The frenetic verbal humor bouncing off all of the self - reflection over who the characters are hurting with their various codependent shenanigans produces something like a millennial echo chamber, complete with Jurassic Park and Ninja Turtles references.

One thing I have learned as well is that growing up in an alcoholic - addicted and codependent family from many generations - I personally NEED more of the emotion based stuff - not a lot, but some.

the most disturbing thing to me is the light hearted tone of the film as it unravels the tale of two so obviously sick and desperately codependent individuals.

There's consensus that a person is more likely to exhibit codependent behaviors if their familial background was dysfunctional.

Fred: Well, I'm not sure they equated shunning codependent relationships with thriving.

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.

I developed a healthier, less codependent, relationship with the church.

There is a significant benefit from real care taking, whereas codependent care taking is dysfunctional.

On Sunday, the Sun clashes with self - sacrificing Neptune warning us to create clear agreements — and avoid codependent overgiving — before we proceed.

The Human Magnet Syndrome accounts for one of the most common couplings we see — the pairing of caretaking, empathetic, and altruistic codependents with selfish, arrogant, controlling, and harmful narcissists.

If the cycle continues and is passed down as codependency patterns within the family system, the children may be likely to enter into codependent relationships and pass codependency patterns down to their children as well.

We have argued for years that these two tracks are interdependent — even codependent.

Once the sexual abuse survivor has children of her own, she in turn models codependent behavior to her children.

«If you are feeling codependent or think that you may have an anxious attachment style, then you may have some trouble getting in touch with what you are feeling, because you may be overly wrapped up and concerned with how your partner is feeling,» writes therapist Jeff Guenther on his website.

Learning how to stop codependent behavior takes time, but recovery is possible.

Exploration, understanding and acceptance of these past events can promote and reinforce mindfulness and one's sense of wellbeing, while decreasing negative patterns of codependent thoughts and behaviors.

Here's another observation: to add to the complexity of the problem, it is often codependent.

We are also codependent on many of these species for cleaning our air and water, for nurturing the foods we consume, and other beneficial

Instead, sororities throw a number of joint parties, or «mixers,» with fraternities throughout the year, which make the two organizations codependent.

The novelty of the entity, its temporality and change from one moment to the next, are codependent phenomena.

I was appalled by this and felt she was a horrible parent... selfish in the extreme, and probably doing irreparable harm to her child by causing her to be unhealthily codependent.

Sure, it had been a complicated few weeks as Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Working Families Party, bitter codependents, tried to agree on a deal that would give Cuomo the WFP's ballot line this fall in exchange for the governor's publicly pledging to get behind a progressive policy agenda.

«Inner bonding has helped us to love and care for ourselves, so that we share our lives and love from a full and connected place without codependent expectations.

Thanks to my therapist, I've discovered that while I'm not a full - blown codependent, I do have some characteristics that I am addressing.

Krista lives in the middle of nowhere with her amazing hubby and two codependent dogs that love to hate each other.

Know that feeling this way after being recently divorced is not only completely normal, it's one of the inevitable side - effects of being in a mainly codependent relationship.

There's evidence to suggest that people who grow up in unstable families where issues like addiction, abuse, traumatic experiences, and neglect are more likely to develop codependent characteristics.