What Codependents Don’t Understand About Defending their Partners

Jason Henry
5 min readSep 6, 2022
Photo by Malachi Cowie on Unsplash

It’s a rough deal being codependent. You do almost all of the giving in the relationship and you take a lot of crap from someone who demands you adopt their way of seeing things, which means you have to abandon your own perspectives.

Ultimately, you may even abandon yourself as you live to serve another person.

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Jason Henry

Former Edu. Psychologist | Current Writer | Constant Learner | “By your stumbling the world is perfected.”