Codependency Quotes: Discovering Strength in Understanding and Overcoming

Codependency is not about what you do for people, but what you can’t stop doing for them.

The first step in releasing codependency is embracing the beauty within your own journey.

Your self-worth should never be based on someone else’s ability to see it.

Codependency is a trait disguised as love.

Learn the difference between helping and enabling.

In a world full of connections, don?t be an outlet for someone’s problems.

Healing from codependency is learning to find your identity outside others.

No one can make you happy, except yourself.

Let go of the false idea that love is sacrificing yourself for the other.

Embrace your personal power. It’s not selfish, it’s self-love.

Codependency is a language spoken by many, but understood by few.

Boundary setting is the truest form of self-love and self-respect.

Self-love is not measured by the love you receive but the love you have for yourself.

Dependency is a prison; Self-love is freedom.

The art of detachment is the real antidote for codependency.

Codependency is no more than a thief of happiness.

Love doesn’t drain you, codependency does.

A relationship built on codependency is like a house built on sand.

Be your own hero, don’t wait for someone to rescue you.

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep others warm.

Codependency Quotes: Discovering Strength in Understanding and Overcoming part 2

Codependency: I can fix you, said two codependents to each other.

Breaking free from codependency is not about stopping the caring, it’s about caring enough to stop.

You yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Codependency creates stress and leads to painful emotions. Sobriety and recovery are about joy and serenity.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Codependents are superheroes of adaptation, but the one thing we forget to adapt to is our own needs.

Stop watering the weeds in your life and start watering the flowers.

Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.

In a codependent relationship, resentment grows when silent expectations are unmet.

Give them a fish, they eat for a day. Codependent gives them a fishing pole, they get mad because they wanted fish.

Codependency: Giving others the mirror when you need to see yourself.

Remembering you are enough is what sets you free from codependency.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Staying in unhealthy relationships is not being faithful, it’s being codependent.

The most dangerous risk of all: The risk of spending your life not doing what you want in the name of others.

The irony of codependency is that while it concerns obsessing over someone else’s life, it’s ultimately about letting that person control yours.

Don?t depend too much on anyone in this world. Even your own shadow leaves you when you?re in darkness.

Codependency is a cage with invisible bars, you can’t escape until you know you’re in it.

I used to think that true love involved giving up everything for another person. Now, I understand that it’s about maintaining your needs while valifying theirs.

In codependency, we get so good at taking care of others, we forget to take care of ourselves.

The price tag of codependency is your self worth.

Confusion is the art of codependency; clarity is the heart of recovery.

Codependency is a learned behavior. That means it can be unlearned.

Unconditional love is healthy, codependency is not.

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep those around you warm.

You can only be taken advantage of as much as you allow yourself to be.

You can love someone and still choose not to walk the path of codependency.

You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.

Granting others the freedom to make their own mistakes is not negligence, it’s love.

I am not a rehab center for a damaged person, I am a lover and I need to be loved too.

Codependency is when two people with dysfunctional personality traits become worse together.

You are not responsible for fixing everyone, you are not a jar of superglue.

The road to recovery, is to acknowledge that there is a problem. To end codependency, one needs to realize it.

Toxic generosity is still toxic. Don?t let it fool you.

Don?t be a password to someone?s misery. Codependency is not a virtue.

My ability to organize dysfunction, doesn’t mean I should.

The dance of codependency and narcissism works until it doesn?t.

Detachment is not about refusing to feel or not caring or turning against another person. Detachment is about taking care of self in the midst of the chaos.