Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Revised and Updated)
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (Revised and Updated)
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To think that I know what’s best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what’s right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve your problems for you.
When I realized that I needed to first take care of myself and stop using relationships to complete me, things changed in my life.
As you go through the days ahead, stop and ask yourself what you need to do to take care of yourself.
Detachment is based on the premises that each person is responsible for himself, that we can’t solve problems that aren’t ours to solve, and that worrying doesn’t help.