Ep 148: Stuck in a Codependent and Bad Relationship – Tools for strength-building
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The Benefits of Codependency Treatments
When you get into a relationship like this it's an intense form of relief from a focus on yourself. You are greatly soothed by this preoccupation with somebody else and somebody else's problems. And you're also gratified by fixing their very fixable shit. So it's like having a child in some ways like you feel rewarded by being able to care for them or feed them or change their diapers. The other person's echoing back all of the things we feel and all of the incompleteness goes away.
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