Tag Archives: codependency

  When illness takes over a relationship, it takes hard work to eradicate the intruder and eternal vigilance to keep it away. Relapse can be expected. When we are talking about addiction, it takes an average of seven real attempts … Continue reading →

Stand with your feet comfortably together. If you’re going to walk, what do you do? You take one foot and put it forward until you throw yourself off balance. Then, when you’re ready to fall on your face, at the … Continue reading →

You’ve heard it. You’ve been on airplanes when they go over the safety procedures. They always say put your own oxygen mask on before helping anyone else. I’ve never been in a situation in which the oxygen masks are needed, … Continue reading →

If illness has taken over your relationship, there’s plenty that you can do, other than succumb to its evil yourself. Just because your boyfriend wants to get piss-drunk every time you go out, doesn’t mean you have to clean him … Continue reading →

In the last few posts, we’ve been seeing what happens when an illness takes over a relationship. The people in the relationship disappear and the needs of the illness consume everything. If you’re the person with the illness, your job … Continue reading →

I never could keep my Grandmother’s advice straight. It is starve a cold and feed a fever, or feed a cold and starve a fever? It’s just as well that I can’t remember it right; modern medicine discredits the practice … Continue reading →

In my last post, I talked about how an illness can take over a relationship; just as if it moved into the house, kicked the couple out of their bed, ate up all the food in the refrigerator, and didn’t … Continue reading →

Even when people are firing on all cylinders, relationships can be tricky. When there’s a illness in the mix, they can be impossible. The partner who is sick, disabled, anxious, depressed, or substance dependent deserves special accommodations. You wouldn’t expect … Continue reading →