S5, Ep 1 Best Friend Therapy: Co-dependency - What makes a relationship unhealthy? How can we change old patterns? Where do we start?
Dial Emma
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The Importance of Being Independent
"If we're not encouraged to be independent, and I don't mean by being kind of given lots of responsibility as a child," she says. "I think that's popularly misunderstood as independence. I can withhold from myself. I'm self-sufficient as in, I'll just need nothing." If you haven't had the freedom to focus on your own needs, maybe because you've been in a family system or a school system,. then you're going to have to park those needs of your own. You know when you were talking about that relationship and you were trying to keep them happy, you were surprised to hear that actually that wasn't your responsibility after all.
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