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		<title>Overcoming Codependency</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Swaniger]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Codependency affects our relationships at home, work and in the community.  It is recognized by the destructive behaviors, attitudes, and feelings which are directly linked to the way we were brought up. Families are described as dysfunctional when the needs of the parents are so overwhelming that raising children becomes secondary to the parents’ needs. Codependency in adulthood emerges from these dysfunctional childhood experiences. How We Become Codependent The households we grew up in can have a powerful influence on the way we deal with life as an adult – often in ways that we never stop to think about. We simply keep on living, repeating the same mistakes and enduring the same conflicts over and over again. We may wonder why the same old patterns keep repeating themselves even when we change friendships, jobs and relationships. We wonder why our relationships don’t work and why is it that we keep finding the same type of partner. The answer may lie in a less-than-nurturing childhood characterized by neglect and other forms of abuse. When children lack the adequate emotional nurturing and loving guidance they will need later in life to function as independent adults, they experience a flawed or incomplete sense of themselves – a pattern which can last throughout one’s entire life. They are prone to having a vague sense of their own personal boundaries – they may not know where they leave off and the other person begins. They may have a need to make other people happy (a pattern they learned in dealing with their parents) and when they are not able to do this, they might feel “less than” other people. They probably see themselves as unselfish and compassionate, always there for others – but, lacking a clear sense of themselves, they may resort to the same techniques to get attention they learned in childhood. Thus, they may try to manipulate, control and change others in order to get their own needs met. When they give, it is with strings attached. Those suffering from codependency often are attracted to, and give to, people who show little [&#8230;]]]></description>
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