Codependent No More Quotes

#1. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#2. Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

Barbara Johnson

#3. Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.

Mark Chesnutt

#4. Children raised by the Double-Minded parent will often grow up having codependent tendencies, seeking acceptance from others, being unrealistic in their view of "self," and feeling insecure. They are confused about what it means to follow Christ, and might avoid their parents in adulthood.

Michelle Anthony

#5. I'm obsessed with my cat. We have a really strong, really weird codependent, almost Bella/Edward relationship. I'm going to be a crazy cat lady one day, I'm sure.

Kristen Stewart

#6. Had I ever spent the day in our neighborhood public high school as an invisible woman while my children were still enrolled there, I no doubt would have insisted on home schooling.

Jeanne Ray

#7. I don't like disappointing people. Some would say that this is "codependent behavior", which I have discovered is a term that explains how most everyone acts all the time, unless one is a sociopath or a Russian computer that plays chess.

Amy Poehler

#8. codependent counterparts in my family, it

Therese Jacobs-Stewart

#9. I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do.

Melody Beattie

#10. Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. MADDIE: Nobody's got it easy right now. We just have to suck it up.

Ruby Dixon

#12. Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

Donatella Versace

#13. Problems arise when people act as if their "boulders" are daily loads, and refuse help, or as if their "daily loads" are boulders they shouldn't have to carry. The results of these two instances are either perpetual pain or irresponsibility.

Henry Cloud

#14. When a codependent is drowning, somebody else's life flashes before his eyes.

Stephen King

#15. The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Elihu Root

#16. The world is getting too small for both an Us and a Them. Us and Them have become codependent, intertwined, fixed to one another. We have no separate fates, but are bound together in one. And our fear of one another is the only thing capable of our undoing.

Sam Killermann

#17. Pain is a message. Messages can be ignored.

James Patterson

#18. If you are alive and conscious, you are probably codependent.

Susan Juby

#19. Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

Rene Russo

#20. I tell people my only successful long-term relationship was with Jim Packard. He was my rock. I didn't realize how codependent I was.

Michael Feldman

#21. But perhaps the enthusiastic sensibility of young women of her age also played a role. This feeling sought release at every opportunity, and with it Grete now felt tempted to want to make Gregor's situation even more terrifying, so that then she would be able to do even more for him than now.

Franz Kafka

#22. I believe in free will.

Jessa Crispin

#23. And anyway, how was a friendship any more codependent than a relationship? Why was it admirable when you were twenty-seven but creepy when you were thirty-seven? Why wasn't friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn't it even better?

Hanya Yanagihara

#24. Lately, he had been wondering if codependence was such a bad thing. He took pleasure in his friendships, and it didn't hurt anyone, so who cared if it was codependent or not?

Hanya Yanagihara

#25. Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want ... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

Andy Richter

#26. There's always something in it for the person who is allowing to be taken advantage of. - Psychotherapist David in Type 1 Sociopath

P.A. Speers

#27. I learned again and again in my life, until you get your own act together, you're not ready for Big Love. What you're ready for is one of those codependent relationships where you desperately need a partner.

Bruce H. Lipton

#28. Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror.

Pappy Boyington

#29. Rumour,Light,Air

Anthony Doerr

#30. It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

Melody Beattie

#31. What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

Melody Beattie

#32. A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Melody Beattie

#33. In all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.

Barbara De Angelis

#34. If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

Gail Sheehy