Codependency Quotes Quotes

“One particularly harmful idea carried by our cultural narrative is that you need to find someone who will love you. Imagine if we believed this about any other basic need: food, water, oxygen. If you needed another person to provide you with those, you’d be considered dependent—if not disabled. Yet we so willingly put ourselves in this state with love.”
― Vironika Tugaleva, The Art of Talking to Yourself

“It's so exhausting, so mentally and emotionally draining when you care about a drug addict and they never miss an opportunity to disappoint, manipulate or hurt you.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles

“Allowing others to suffer the consequences of their own actions, without enabling them, is the best motivation for them to undertake the difficult task of change.”
― Darlene Lancer

“Loss of a relationship is painful, but if you lose yourself in a relationship, when it ends, it's devastating, because you are lost.”
― Darlene Lancer

“The need to depend on other people's availablity to enjoy life is a personality disorder that many 'extroverts' have. Some won't even go to a restaurant alone, or enjoy a movie at the cinema alone. It's really sad.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“All extroverts have a codependency problem.”
― Mitta Xinindlu