Understanding the difference between codependent and counterdependent behaviors can help you adjust the way you approach intimate relationship
You have unknowingly been manipulated to believe you are the broken and not good enough person that you believe to be true.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it!” – George Bernard Shaw
Codependency is the leftover, unhealed, unfinished wounds of our past, where we did not develop enough on the inside to feel safe, whole, and self-generative.
How love or unloved we feel as children deeply affect the formation of our self-esteem and self-acceptance. It shapes how we seek to love and whether we feel part of our lives or more like an outsider.
The true self lies hidden beneath the codependent self until it can be safely coaxed to awaken to its full aliveness.
Saviour empath is naturally desired by narcissists for their empathic traits and class. No narcissist will ever shy away from the ensnaring of the savior empath. Here’s why.
Codependency is a dynamic where one or both persons in the relationship feel an excessive and unhealthy responsibility for the other person’s life.
The codependency dance is described as the intimate relationship between two very broken, dysfunctional, opposing, but balanced people: the fixer and the people-pleaser.
