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When Helping Hurts: Codependency
By
Linda Mintle
Have you ever felt responsible for someone else’s happiness? Do you find yourself constantly trying to fix, rescue, or protect someone you love, even when it comes at the expense of your own emotional health? Loving someone is healthy. Losing yourself in the process is not. Many people confuse sacrificial love with codependency. While Scripture…
The Don’ts of Responding to Addiction
By
Linda Mintle
Most of us know someone who struggles with addiction. We often don’t know the best way to respond. On the one hand, we want to be compassion and caring as addiction is a chronic brain disease. On the other hand, we don’t want to encourage the addiction. And we certainly don’t want to enable. So…
Do You Show Signs of Codependency?
By
Linda Mintle
Jenny loves Rick, but is showing signs of codependency. She needs Rick’s approval and basis her sense of identity on his reactions. She feels she must care for him at all costs in order to be worthy of his love. When a problem arises, she doesn’t confront because she worries he won’t love her or respond well.…
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