Codependency

Co-dependency can seriously impact your life as well as the lives of those around you. While this
situation can be complex, the root of co-dependency is becoming so addicted to another person that you
feel the need to control them or you allow their behavior to affect you.
In taking ownership of another person’s problems, someone who is co-dependent may obtain their
own sense of well-being from managing the behaviors of the other person. This situation can become
so severe that the person actually begins to focus their entire lives on the person they believe they are
trying to help.
Such relationships can become particularly dangerous when they involve two people who are intimately
involved with one another. The results of such behavior can be serious and devastating. Someone who
is co-dependent may increasingly tolerate behavior that is completely unacceptable, they may deny the
severity of the their own personal damage, they might begin to compromise their own personal values
and may also experience a decline in their physical, mental and spiritual health.