Are You Losing Yourself In Your Relationship?
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Can you be happy in a relationship if you give up your identity, your individuality; your power?
Some might say “It will get better if you try harder” or “If you love him more, he will stop ignoring you”
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But if you don’t respect yourself enough, how can you expect others to respect you? After all, you show others how you want to be treated.
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When you become codependent, you completely lose yourself in your partner, and you forget that you are a whole person outside of your relationship, with your own needs, dreams, interests, and goals that need to be nurtured.
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What’s the result? Your partner takes you for granted or feels smothered and repulsed by you.
If your feelings are stemming from a place of need, fear, loneliness, and insecurity, and not from unconditional love, you need to take a step back.
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Browse through our below-given content, identify codependency at its root, and step into your power.
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Codependency is a big problem when it comes to relationships, especially narcissistic relationships. But codependency is actually a broad term, and there are multiple types of codependency and codependent personalities. The creation of these codependency types helps people in denial to identify codependency/SLDD and see themselves in a specific diagnostic “light.” Click below to know more!
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What if you are losing yourself in your relationship without even being aware of it? As codependents, we lose ourselves in relationships, unaware that losing our self is the greatest despair. When the relationship inevitably ends, it’s devastating, because we are lost. We lack autonomy because that task wasn’t accomplished by us even when we turned adult. The struggle to achieve it is typical of codependent relationships. Click below to know more!
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POPULAR ARTICLES ON CODEPENDENCY
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Do you ever find yourself making lots of compromises for the sake of your relationship? Do you find yourself invested so much in your partner’s happiness that you forget your individuality? You might believe these actions increase the bond for a healthy relationship. But the reality is, you’re a victim of codependency in a toxic relationship. To know more, click below!
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The first step of recovering from codependency is to stop focusing on others and start looking at yourself. Recovering from a codependent relationship is a journey towards self-love and self-acceptance where you will be able to let go and start dealing with your own life. Click below to know more about the Codependency recovery process and how self-love holds the key.
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Codependency has been referred to as “relationship addiction” or “love addiction.” The focus on others helps to alleviate our pain and inner emptiness, but in ignoring ourselves, it only grows. This habit becomes a circular, self-perpetuating system that takes on a life of its own. Our thinking becomes obsessive, and our behavior can be compulsive, despite adverse consequences. To know more click below!
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One of the biggest challenges to mental health or addiction recovery is amending relationships with codependent behaviors. And that can be difficult if you have poor relationship skills. Luckily sometimes, family members and friends are willing to make amends because they too want a healthy relationship. Want to know more about how to change codependency behavior? Click below to know!
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The “mother wound” is not a typical term you may hear in a counseling or therapy session, but it may be a factor that is influencing your relationship with your partners. While the mother wound is most often associated with daughters, it is possible for sons to also have mother wound factors that influence their relationships. They may not have been abusive or neglectful but they were also always distant and less tuned into the emotional needs of their children. Click below to know more!
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We all exhibit various and distinct personality traits that make up our overall character. They are a mix of both good and bad thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
So, what do you think is your most dominant character trait? It follows that out of all the character traits we have, one is the most dominant. That trait is what forms your overall disposition and governs practically all of your behaviors. People you meet, often get a sense of who you are, based primarily on this dominant trait.
Which dominant personality trait of yours do you think stands out the most? Click below to take the Quiz!
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