Originally Posted by GettingBy

There are all sorts of things that can happen to us and everyone around us. What happens in an alcoholic/codependent relationship is life gets out of balance. We the codependents intercept the "consequences"... for a whole host of reasons, but the largest and simplest is that we think we are helping. The reality is we are preventing them from living their life and dealing with the consquences of their choices (enabling)..