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Mardesal asked in HealthMental Health · 1 decade ago

Is it true that you can never heal from co-dependency?

I've heard that codependent people never heal. I've heard that codependency is a disorder you have to learn to control all of your life, just like alcoholism. Is it true that codependen people have to be "aware and alert" always, orhewrwise they will "fall" again?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I have seen people resolve their co dependancy by transfering their additction to something else, aclohol, drugs, even sex, for the feeling of closeness to another person. The first step from my understanding is to reslove the addictive personality. Usually when one has an addiction it is from a traumatic experience, first exposure to something and trying to relive that experience, or simply a predisposition to dependancy. That is what the therapy should focus on, the underlying issue, not the symptom of co dependancy.

  • 1 decade ago

    People with issues of codependency can heal. It will take time, energy, dedication and hard work on thier part. Healing will not happen overnight, but it can happen.

    It involves getting to a place where someone does not see others as one-up or one-down in relation to themselves....

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    4 years ago

    ok properly you're nevertheless forward in this. a minimum of now you're conscious. i does no longer lament lots approximately having lost her have confidence as this might make it take place. overlook with reference to the moaning and initiate being relaxing and thoroughly chuffed. right this moment is the 1st day of the remainder of your existence and the 1st day of the remainder of your relationship. bypass away the previous the place it belongs and initiate over now. provide her motives to choose your organisation. that's not tremendously lots having replaced. instruct her a sturdy time. hire slightly one sitter for the infants and take her out. Romance her detect one yet another. Be great to her; ask her approximately her individual desires instruct interest in her aspirations, ask her opinions on existence. handle her as a individual and not as your spouse. provide up repeating how sorry you're it merely brings interest to what an *** you have been. instruct her particularly. do no longer assume to %. up the place you left off. in case you decide on a great relationship you will the two ought to start over. Insist on taking her out and don't communicate with reference to the form you executed her incorrect and are replaced yet concentration on having a sturdy time mutually. do you be responsive to what she enjoys doing or the place she likes to bypass? Take her on walks, bypass on dates, on a mini trip, take the infants as quickly as in awhile on your individual to furnish her slightly bit loose time, purchase her some little relaxing presents……use your mind's eye and creativity. Don’t concentration on blunders yet on making plans for a relaxing destiny ask her how and the place she might decide to stay to motivate interior her a desire to be with you returned. do no longer tension approximately how truthful and real you n ow are that's going to ultimately make you sound pathetic and ladies do no longer choose pathetic adult adult males as friends. i'm beneficial each and every thing will artwork out. do no longer provide up be round her and courtroom her and your infants.

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