(ELI5) Why is codependency considered inherently negative?
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Codependency requires you to care for someone else to the point that it is damaging to yourself. Additionally, you end up assuming all responsibility for their failures, which you actually have no control over. It also gives the other person permission to take advantage of you, and they will. Codependency used to be called “co-alcoholism” because the relationships between addicts and their partners and pretty much always codependant. It’s the only way those relationships can survive. I am a recovering codependant. I am extremely close to my husband, and we rely on each other, but there is a give and take that was never present in my former codependant relationships.
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