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• To summarize, codependency is not caring and giving everything we have to people that we love to see them happy or get them through a difficult time.
• Healthy personal boundaries mean you take ownership for your own actions and emotions, while not taking ownership of the actions or emotions of others.
• A hallmark of codependence is possessing weak boundaries. They typically manifest themselves in one of two ways: The first one is taking excessive responsibility for the emotional well being of another even if they are not (especially if they aren’t) responsible for the cause. The other is someone who expects others to supply them or to take respon...
• Someone with weak boundaries usually comes from a home where there is abuse and dysfunction. The lines have been crossed in an unhealthy manner leaving the codependent with low self-esteem and a lack of knowledge and poor boundaries. The codependent does not realize that the reason they can’t express themselves in an assertive manner can be traced ...
• The end result is a belief that your thoughts and beliefs do not matter and this is carried into adulthood and the relationships that form there.