Breaking the Bad Habit of Codependency
October 17th, 2007 artsOften at the root of family addictions is at least one party who is the codependent person in the relationship, also known as the enabler. This person is the kind who would avoid mentioning an elephant standing in the middle of the room and talk about anything else but the animal. And although that sounds funny, it isn’t. In fact it’s sad, because most codependent people don’t even know they have this problem.
What happens is usually cyclical; i.e. probably in all likelihood happened when the codependent person was a child in a family with an addict or other abuser there. In order to survive, this person simply joined in the game, ignoring problems like addictions and abuse, hoping they’d go away and making them see much less than they were so they’d the pain the abusers caused would somehow be lessened inside – and out.
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Tags: Bad Habit, Codependency