David Stafford Quotes

#1. But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.

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#2. Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.

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#3. Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

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#4. If you ever feel the person in your life needs rescuing, particularly from him or herself - beware. Codependency is rearing its head again.

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#5. Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.

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#6. Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.

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#7. Sunday 8 August. The next day it declared: 'Workers! You

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