Quotes About Codependence

Some view it as too close to submission; others associate it with codependence or an abdication of personal power. Consequently, the notion of surrendering to anything or anyone has become suspect.

Independence, she's discovered, feels just as good as codependence once did. She's as surprised as anyone to realize this.

Codependence allows us to survive physically but causes us to feel empty and dead inside. Codependence is a defense system that causes us to wound ourselves.

Codependence is being at war with ourselves - which makes it impossible to trust and Love ourselves

Recovery from the disease of Codependence involves stopping the war within so that we can get in touch with our True Self, so that we can start to Love and trust ourselves.

Thank God for Codependence, without it we would not be alive. But now is the time to get things into balance - the time to bring ego-self into alignment and balance with Spiritual Self. That is the transformation which is known as "the death of the ego." To quote theSt. Francis Prayer, "It is through dying that we awaken to eternal life." It is not referring just to physical death, it is referring to the death of the ego which allows us to awaken to the Truth of eternal life.

The original wound, the genesis of all the pain in the human experience, the original cause from which Codependence emerged, is the illusion that we are separate from God, from our Creator. We are not. We never have been. But due to planetary conditions it felt like we were. It felt like being human was a punishment.

that wanting to give up "anything" for someone else's happiness is a dysfunctional symptom of love addiction and codependence.

therapy for a condition called codependence, which is a neural wiring issue that tricks me into being unable to tolerate the discomfort, or perceived discomfort, of others.

Recovery from codependence is a lot like a growing up process - we must learn to do the things our dysfunctional parents did not teach us to do: appropriately esteem ourselves, set functional boundaries, be aware of and acknowledge our reality, take care of our adult needs and wants, and experience our reality moderately.

Not knowing how to be moderate is possibly the most visible symptom of codependence to other people. (...) In other words codependents simply don't appear to understand what moderation is. They are either totally involved or totally detached, totally happy or absolutely miserable, etc. The codependent believes a moderate response to a situation isn't enough. Only too much is enough.

It's important to note that interdependence differs from what is sometimes called "codependence"—that is, an unhealthy relationship in which an individual's sense of identity and worth is wrapped up in the other person.