Loner,
I can really relate to the things you wrote in your passage....
My father used the example of an physically abusive person.....how guilty they feel......they apologize and you just keep staying there.....like it's all okay.
What baffles me about "their sick little bubble" is that us codies fall for it....crave it even. They have no idea that they're really doing it....and we have no idea that we're falling for it.
"I was a prisoner in an invisible jail, that I unknowingly helped create". YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD!!!! You think to yourself.....how the heck did that happen? When did I stop caring about myself, my success, my finances, my friends, my family just to stick up for someone who OBVIOUSLY has a PROBLEM????
Just wanted to thank you for your response.....
K
Originally Posted by
loner1968 
To me it means they will do anything to keep their way of life from crumbling. They will tell you what you want to hear and also what they want you to hear. they can break you down little by little so you have no self esteem and you won't want to leave. They need someone, an enabler, to help them exist in their sick bubble. They talk down to you and you believe it.They say they love you and you believe it. They hit you and you apologize later.
Pretty soon your brain becomes just as sick as theirs. everything is twisted. Most times you could get up and leave when you felt like it was getting bad but not this time...you can't leave...there are a million reasons why you have to stay. None of them are real but you are convinced they are. Being a recovering codie I can look back and see that I was a hostage. I didn't think so at the time...I knew something was wrong...but I thought it was all me. I was a prisoner in an invisible jail that I unknowingly helped create.
That's what the phrase means to me.