Codependent 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. 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

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

Barbara De Angelis

#4. 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

#5. You should resolve not to seek public approval of your private business, when you are not also prepared to accept public disapproval.

Judith Martin

#6. The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all.

Harlan Coben

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

Melody Beattie

#8. 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

#9. I like a hairy chest, I think that's really sexy. I'm not naked a lot oddly enough but I usually wear sweats, its very unsexy.

Brooklyn Decker

#10. I only want to work with transparent ideas and accessible technologies that 'spotlight' the individual's role in society through creativity. I try to live an open-source life.

Chris Jordan

#11. They would hear 3000 and think it was the year 3000, I was hoping it would sort of disorient them and prepare them for the strange message they were about to receive.

Joel Hodgson

#12. Love me or hate me, I always speak the truth.

Caroline Manzo

#13. All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.

Benjamin Disraeli

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#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. Rum and Coke. No ice, please." She nodded

Sarah White

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

Rene Russo

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Will we remain faithful in our obedience to God and be willing to suffer the humiliation of refusing to be independent?

Oswald Chambers

#26. I had to be the worst backup plan in the history of the universe, but here I was anyway.

Lisa Henry

#27. 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

#28. codependent counterparts in my family, it

Therese Jacobs-Stewart

#29. 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

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

Barbara Johnson

#31. 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

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

Stephen King

#33. Dalai Lama when he tells us, "Tibetans have a saying: If bad news comes, you listen here (points to the right ear) and let it out here (points to the left ear).

Dina Colman

#34. 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

#35. Air racing may not be better than your wedding night, but it's better than the second night.

Mickey Rupp

#36. I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

Nathan Parsons

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

Susan Juby