Decreasing Codependency in Relationships

You focus more attention on your partner than yourself. You know your relationship isn’t healthy but you feel addicted to it. You do anything to please your partner because you fear they might leave you. You feel ashamed and trapped. 

Codependency describes a relationship pattern in which you continuously place the needs of your partner above your own, resulting in a power imbalance. Individuals who that experienced childhood abuse or witnessed codependency within their family, are susceptible to being in a codependent relationship. Codependency can lead to unhealthy relationships, low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety.

Signs of Codependency

You may struggle with codependency if you identify with the below behaviors:

• Crave validation, approval, and acceptance from others.
• Lack boundaries.
• Determine your value based on how you care for others.
• Often apologize to avoid conflict.
• Struggle with communication.
• Dismiss or minimize your feelings and needs.
• Experience constant guilt, shame, and anxiety in your relationship.
• Determine your worth based on others’ opinions.
• Have an intense fear of abandonment.
• Endure and enable a partner’s toxic, abusive, or unhealthy behavior.
• Make extreme sacrifices for your partner.
• Have a poor self-image and self-identity.
• Tend to people please.

How Therapy Can Help 

If you think you struggle with codependency or find yourself unable to leave an abusive relationship, you don’t need to struggle alone. I offer therapy for individuals struggling with codependency and recovering from narcissistic and emotional abuse. Through therapy you can:

Build self-worth

Learn to set boundaries 

Develop interests outside of your relationship 

Learn to communicate your needs 

Develop healthy relationships 

Decrease anxiety and depression

Contact me today to get started with counseling, offered online in Georgia and Tennessee.

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