Codependency Blog
The Codependency Blog. Articles to help you understand Codependency. Codependency is a term increasingly used in psychology and mental health circles to describe an emotional and behavioural condition that affects one’s ability to have healthy, mutually satisfying relationships. Codependency often manifests itself in the form of enabling or controlling behaviour within the relationship. Roslyn Saunders’s Codependency Blog can provide insight into this phenomenon and how it can be managed with greater understanding. Am I Codependent? Take the Codependency Quiz and find out.
Why People Pleasers Often Reach for a Drink to Switch Off
Take the Free Codependency Quiz What if you don’t actually love the drink, and you just love the quiet it brings? All day, you’re managing. Everyone’s moods, everyone’s needs, everyone’s plans. Then the first drink arrives, and for a moment your mind finally stops. If that sounds familiar, you’re not
Signs You’re the Chief Enabling Officer in Someone Else’s Addiction
Take the Free Codependency Quiz Are you doing more work on someone’s recovery than they are? Making the calls. Making the excuses. Researching treatment they haven’t asked for. Keeping everything running so nobody outside the family has to see what’s really going on. In many families affected by addiction, one
Why Codependency and Alcohol Addiction Often Go Hand in Hand
Take the Free Codependency Quiz Have you ever found yourself checking someone’s phone, their car or their breath, and wondering when you became this person? You didn’t set out to monitor anyone. You set out to love someone, and somewhere along the way, loving them turned into watching them. If
Loving Someone Who Drinks Too Much: Where Codependency and Alcohol Meet
Take the Free Codependency Quiz Have you ever believed that if you just loved someone hard enough, their drinking would change? You reasoned with them. You pleaded. You managed their moods, their mornings after, sometimes even their access to alcohol itself. And still, nothing changed the way you hoped it
Growing Up With a Parent Who Drank: How It Shapes You as an Adult
Take My Free Codependency Quiz Did your house ever feel calm, or did it feel like waiting? Waiting to see what mood would walk through the door. Waiting to see whether tonight would be a good night or a difficult one. If you grew up with a parent who drank,