Category: Dependency
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Building Trust
As many of my readers know about my history, my father was a philanderer who lied to my family to hide his philandering. As an adult, I became attracted to philanderers and liars. My resulting adult life was filled with angst of distrusting men and suspicious of their intentions and actions. In the recent past,…
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Love: Living Beyond Dependency
The truth is that most of our relationships are dependencies. Love is unconditional while dependency requires the condition that we are with the other person or that we serve certain conditions in each other’s lives. Dependency is a form of addiction. All my relationships until recently have been dependencies, either serving as a victim or…
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Healing the Trifecta
There are three other members of my immediate family, including my parents and my younger brother. Because of the abuse and dysfunctions within my family, which I believe is our family karma, I needed to overcome the abuse and dysfunctions of my family, including the roles I played with each member of my family. About…
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Breaking the Bonds of Codependency
This weekend is a great exercise in letting go, and breaking free from codependency. Codependency is the oppositve of love as it is our need to fill the void by another because we cannot love ourselves. Do not confused codependency with love. If you have not learned to love yourself first, your relationships are codependencies.…
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Breaking Old Patterns
This morning, I wrote on my FB page about breaking community patterns and urged my FB friends as follows: “Remember, there is a lesson in everything we experience. Maybe this is America’s lesson. Instead of waiting for our President to protect its people, it is time for each of us to do more to help…
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Building Something New
For four years, I was unable to let go of a really awful and destructive relationship. It had every possible destructive aspects to it. There was lying, cheating, abuse, addiction, betrayal, deception, infidelity, among others. What bound me to this man was that I too had all of these destructicve aspects to me, so like…
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Attraction to Perpetrators
I have witnessed several people being attracted to perpetrators of sexual and physical assaults. Why would you feel attracted to people who perpetrate a crime against you or others? Logically, we should feel repelled by them, but unfortunately, this is not the case. Perpetrators of sexual and physical assaults are themselves wounded and emotionally injured.…
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Honesty about Self Loathing
In my previous post, I wrote about how many of us have self loathing behaviors. This can be the caused by past emotional, physical, sexual abuse resulting in self loathing behaviors as children and later as adults. If we experience abuse as children, how we were treated as children is how we allow others to…
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Addiction is Not Necessarily an Addiction for Life | Wake Up World
Dawn Walton examines how addictions can be overcome for life, by healing the emotional wounds which created them. Source: Addiction is Not Necessarily an Addiction for Life | Wake Up World
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Are You in a Karmic Relationship?
When we are in relationships, our egos prevent us from observing or seeing these relationships clearly. Many of these relationships are karmic relationships that we attract to teach our souls the life lessons that we are intended to learn in this lifetime. Many times, these same situations may have repeated earlier in this lifetime…
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