You Are Codependent UNLESS You Fix THIS One Thing
More than likely, and you’re not aware of this, you are in a codependent relationship. Here’s how you know this and prove this is true…
The term ‘codependency’ is used in the area of intervention in addiction where there’s a circular relationship between people.
In this circular relationship, there’s someone who’s a giver who doesn’t feel good unless they’re needed and a taker who doesn’t feel good unless they’re provided.
You might say, “Rone, I don’t even use any substance that I could abuse or be addicted. I can’t possibly in a codependent relationship.” This is where you realize you’re codependent…
A codependency where there’s a person who uses a substance and a person that facilitates their using it can be interchangeable with a person who has a bad behavior and a person that facilitates it.
Emotion, after all, is the most addictive substance. In fact, it’s the emotion addicts are after [caused by the substance abuse], not the substance itself.
If there’s a bad behavior in your relationship where it’s tolerated, it is facilitated.
It will recur.
A timely example would be the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard situation where there’s a circular relationship of individuals addicted to their bad behaviors and their counterparts facilitating them… until the inevitable outcome of a devastating end.
This could be easily adjusted and managed at the outset of your relationship.
Here’s how.
I’ve coined an amazing term which isn’t only a descriptor, but a lifestyle. The term is “co-independency.”
Co-independency is where you facilitate a relationship where each individual recognizes authority and responsibility can never be severed apart. They are one and the same.
Each person is responsible for their authority; their authority being everything in their control, including their actions, mannerisms, behaviors, communication, and expectations, etc.
This responsibility can never be outsourced, at least without prior negotiation.
Furthermore, each person must be intolerant.
To be intolerant doesn’t mean being unbearable or inflexible. To be intolerant is not to be tolerating. Either you are accepting or not. Those things you accept, you accept wholely. Those things you can’t tolerate, you will not.
I’ll speak more about this, but share your comments about this in the comments section below!