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For those who can identify with codependency or know someone who is codependent, the below collection of thoughts and quotations and sayings may shed some light on this topic."Whatever problem the other person has,codependency involves a habitual system of thinking, feeling, and behaving towards ourselves and others that can cause us pain. Codependent behaviors or habits are self destructive. We frequently react to people who are destroyinhg themselves; we react by learning to destroy ourselves." - Melody Beattie
"Co-dependency can be defined as compulsive use of a set of maladaptive, often counterproductive behaviors (behaviors that don't work) in an attempt to create a sense of identity, value or safety in one's life. Co-dependents seek validation and meaning in their lives in the world of people, places and things outside themselves. They believe that other people's behavior or treatment of them in some way adds to or detracts from their own value." - Douglas Weiss and Dianne DeBusk
"The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel."- C.S. Lewis
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"We need to change our perspective and learn to practice discernment so that we can change our relationship with life and with ourselves. We need to be pro-active in our own process so that we can stop being the victims of the old tapes and start owning the power to co-create our lives in a healthy, Loving way."- Robert Burney
"Codependency is not about a relationship with an addict, it is the absence of relationship with self."- Terry Kellogg
More Great Codependency Quotes
"Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within our control and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and cannot control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible... Remember too, that if you think you have free rein over things that are naturally beyond your control, or if you attempt to adopt the affairs of others as your own, your pursuits will be thwarted and you will become a frustrated, anxious and fault-finding person."- Epicetus
"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."- M. Scott Peck, M.D.
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."- Betty Ford
"When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before." - Mae West
"If you don't run your own life, someone else will." - John Atkinson
"To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent."- Berton Averre
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